Former Whiteface Hotel
Whiteface, Cochran County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Built 1926 by realtor Wm. E. Flenniken, this was first brick structure in town. It housed land shoppers when Cochran County was opened to sales of small tracts. Given 1968 to Girlstown, U.S.A., by J. S. Noel estate, for use of the management. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1969
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Realtor William E. Flenniken put up this hotel in 1926 as the first brick building in Whiteface, raised to house prospective buyers when Cochran County opened for sale in small tracts. It stood at the center of the land rush that peopled this corner of the South Plains. In 1968 the J.S. Noel estate gave the building to Girlstown, U.S.A., for the use of its management.
Why it matters
The hotel captures the 1920s land-sales boom that settled the last open stretches of West Texas, where a brick building signaled a town's ambitions to endure.
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