One hundred years ago, hotels in Texas advertised 75-cent to $1 daily rooms (with special rates for families), cool breezes in summer months, proximity to streetcar lines, and, if you were flush with cash, perhaps even your own private bathroom. While their amenities have been upgraded significantly in the intervening years, many historic hotels still endure in Texas, with their creaky floors and old pipes, stately lobbies, and breezy, rocking chair–lined verandas—plus maybe a ghostly spirit or two that checked in and never checked out. At least thirty hundred-year-old hotels are still operating across the state, enduring among their more cookie-cutter chain peers. Among these treasures are the oldest continuously operating hotel—the Excelsior House Hotel, in Jefferson—and four that celebrated their centennials just this year, including…
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