Former Whiteface Motel

Historical marker location:
Whiteface, Texas
( 100 block of West 2nd Street-Whiteface)
Marker installed: 1969
Marker size: Medallion and Plate

Built 1926 by realtor William 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

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