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Berkshire Street
in the 1950s showing
Lamar Building & Lowrie Drugs
1950s Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/
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History
This building, which has been declared a Texas historic landmark was
originally The Crosbyton Inn (1908), the area's first hotel.
The two-story frame building burned in 1912 and the hotel was rebuilt
over the old basement, however, this building was demolished in the
mid-1920s. In 1926 the current brick building was constructed by E.
H. Hendricks. The building was bought during WWII
by local businessman (and son of a Crosby County pioneer) W. P. Lamar
and was renamed the Lamar Building. Lowrie Drug was the downstairs
tenant while the upper floor housed doctor's offices and apartments.
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Lowrie Drug
Interior
Vintage
photo courtesy Margot Hardin & City of Crosbyton
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Lamar Building
Historical Marker
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, July 2009 |
Historical Marker:
126 S. Berkshire Ave.
Lamar Building
Site of Crosbyton
Inn, first hotel here, built 1908, by C. B. Livestock Company
to help promote area for cotton farming. A two-story frame building,
it was mecca for travelers and land buyers.
After fire in 1912, hotel rebuilt over original basement. It was razed
in 1920s. A brick office and apartment building was erected by E.
H. Hendricks in 1926; purchased 1944 by W. P. Lamar and renamed Lamar
Building.
Lamar (1889-1946), farmer, businessman, was son of pioneer of Crosby
County.
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Building under
renovation
Photo courtesy Margot Hardin & City of Crosbyton, June 2006
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Restoration
Completion of Phase I (the ground floor) of the Prairie Ladies
Inn will soon be complete. The ground floor will house a old-fashioned
soda fountain / sandwitch shop, a bus terminal, visitor's center and
and a transportation museum (a permanent exhibit from the Smithsonian
Institution). This Crosbyton
landmark will also house chamber offices and a conference room. Each
of the upstairs rooms (renovated as phase II) will honor a Panhandle
matriarch - hence the name Prairie Ladies Inn. The restoration was
made possible by grants totaling $473,000.
Editor: Our thanks to
Margot Hardin of Crosbyton's city hall for supplying above photo and
information. - June, 2006 |
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Lamar Building
/ Lowrie Drug Store
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, July 2009
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Lamar
Building / Lowrie Drug Store
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, July 2009
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Lamar family
historical marker
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, July 2009
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