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| View Poll Results: What's your favorite highrise? | |||
| Alico Building |
   
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6 | 21.43% |
| Six Flags O.T. |
  
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0 | 0% |
| New Cowboys Stadium |
  
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2 | 7.14% |
| the Tyler Towers |
  
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3 | 10.71% |
| Laredo Nat'l Bank |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Rio Grand Plaza |
  
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0 | 0% |
| BoA Building (Midland) |
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4 | 14.29% |
| Petrolium Building |
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0 | 0% |
| Edson Hotel |
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2 | 7.14% |
| Jefferson Co. Courthouse |
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1 | 3.57% |
| Palisade Palms |
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4 | 14.29% |
| American Nat'l Life |
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0 | 0% |
| Other |
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6 | 21.43% |
| Voters: 28. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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04-21-2008, 05:44 AM
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The forlorn Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas!!! Opened for business in 1929, and hosted such celebs as: Clark Gable, Will Rogers, Marlene Dietrich, and the list goes on. The hotel offered therapeutic spa baths from the local "crazy water" which contains lithium!!
 Today, the hotel stands empty, awaiting a buyer....and occasional ghost hunters!  
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04-21-2008, 07:16 AM
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04-21-2008, 09:31 AM
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The renovated Cactus Hotel in San Angelo is nice, too. But don't know if it can compete with some of the taller buildings. It's only 15 stories.
~Rath
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04-21-2008, 09:55 AM
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This hotel just fascinates me, and it is such a shame to see it sit and slowly decay. The stories it could tell........ 
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04-21-2008, 10:15 AM
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I'm going with the Edson Hotel...I was shocked the first time I went to Beaumont and saw a building that tall...
I didn't know enough of the history of the town at the time...
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04-21-2008, 03:33 PM
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I'd have to second this one. I don't know why, but it has historic value.
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07-24-2008, 09:13 PM
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Price Tower - Bartlesville, OK
My favorite small town highrise is Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Last edited by deltologist; Yesterday at 03:47 PM.
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07-24-2008, 10:28 PM
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Woops!
Woops! I thought this thread was "general US," not just Texas. Sorry about that y'all.
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Yesterday, 07:41 AM
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I'm loving that Midland tower. There were four buildings taller than the BOA Building in Midland planned before the oil bust. All over 500 feet.
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