Hotel Faust

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Hotel Faust
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Hotel Faust in 2012
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Hotel Faust
Location240 S. Seguin St.,
New Braunfels, Texas
Coordinates 29°42′36″N98°7′25″W / 29.71000°N 98.12361°W / 29.71000; -98.12361
Arealess than one acre
Built1929 (1929)
Built byWalter Sipple
ArchitectHarvey Partridge Smith
NRHP reference No. 85000922 [1]
RTHL No. 1577
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 2, 1985
Designated RTHL1984

The Faust Hotel, once known as the Travelers Hotel, was completed in 1929 and is located in New Braunfels, Texas. The hotel planning was started by a group of citizens desiring to attract tourist and convention traffic to counter a downturn in agricultural business caused by a mid-1920s drought in the area. Built on donated land from Senator Joseph Faust's estate, the hotel was renamed in 1936 in honor that family. The building is a four-story masonry design of no particular architectural style, though with some Spanish Renaissance Revival detailing. [2]

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It has been renovated several times through the years, but is one of the few known Texas mid-rise hotels of its era still serving as a hotel. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]

Not to be confused with Hotel Faust (now Hotel Giles since 2015) in Comfort, Texas. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Texas Historical Commission Historic Sites Atlas: Hotel Faust" . Retrieved October 8, 2014.
  3. "About Hotel Giles". Hotel Giles. 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2022-12-01.