Palace Hotel
Palace
Hotel
400 West Main Street
Denison, Texas
Panoramic photo by
Kelley Studio April 1916, South side of street. View to west.
Yellow
Jacket 1916, inside back cover
Palace Hotel
Fountain and Lunch Room
400 West Main Street
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The
Palace Coffee Shop |
Palace
Grill Advertisement
109 South Burnett
Avenue
Facing Main Street, and a
coffee shop operated at the corner until the early 1950s. The
front
half of the first floor was mercantile space." City directories show Preston Shoe Store at 400 West Main from 1946 to 1955.
Ad for Preston Shoes
400 West Main Street
Denison Herald
March 20, 1949
Courtesy of Sharon L. Ward
City Directory lists The Booterie there in 1957.
By 1962 Beall's Department Store had moved
in, and the Booterie had moved across the street to 407.
The building
was
demolished in 1961.
Denison History
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Palace Hotel
Source: Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842 - 1922). Denison, Grayson County, Texas
1891, 1891.
Lithograph, 20.9 x 33.5 in. Published by T. M. Fowler and James
B. Moyer.
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth. From Amon Carter Museum, Fort
Worth, Bird's-eye Maps,
According
to Donna Hunt's article in the Herald Democrat, Augut 11, 2010, "In the
early days a store located on the ground floor facing Main Street, and
a coffee shop operated at the corner until the early 1950s.
The
front half of the first floor was mercantile space." The
building
was demolished in 1961.
Central Hotel
ca. 1895.
400 West Main Street
Denison, Texas
Source: Art Work of Grayson County (1895), fig. 9.5(b)
The hotel was located at 400 W.
Main St. at the corner of South Burnett Ave. This was called
the "Central Hotel" in 1895.
400 West
Main Street at South Burnett Avenue, looking south.
"Simpson Palace
Hotel. European Plan. Joe M. Crumpton, Manager."
Source: Robinson,
Frank M., comp. Industrial Denison. [N.p.]: Means-Moore Co., [ca.
1909]. Page 84.
Notice the big
tooth as a sign advertising "Dentist."
R.M. King Dry Goods : Clothing, Furnishings & Shoes
Later it was known as
the "Simpson Palace Hotel" and then just the "Palace Hotel".
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