Historical Marker
Ritchey Hotel, 1886
Historical marker location:
102 E. Murphy Ave., Alpine, Texas
( Corner of Murphy & S. 4th Sts., Alpine; (fronts tracks))
Marker installed: 1965
1886 frame and adobe. Built facing old cattle loading pens on the Southern Pacific Railway. Lodgings and saloon for cowhands and ranchers in town to ship cattle from widely scattered ranches of the Big Bend country.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1965.