Hotel Grim
301 N. State Line Ave., Texarkana, TXHotel Grim in Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas, is an eight-story reinforced concrete building with a stone, brick, and stucco veneer, designed for mixed residential and commercial use, with retail spaces occupying the ground floor. Completed in 1925, it satisfied a long standing need for a modern hotel with maximum guest space first voiced in 1912 and later in 1920. When completed, the building was the second tallest building in Texarkana and became the hub of downtown and community activity. The property is nominated to the National Register under Criterion A in the area of Community Planning and Development at the local level. The building is also nominated at the local level under Criterion C in the area of Architecture, as a distinctive high-rise hotel within the downtown commercial district, designed by well-known Little Rock architects George R. Mann and Eugene John Stern and built by local contractors with locally-made products. The building’s period of significance is its date of construction, 1925.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
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