
Fairmount Hotel, 1906


Originally built five blocks away at E. Commerce and Bowie Streets as a traveler’s hotel, the red brick and limestone building established a world record as the heaviest building ever moved on wheels in April 1985.
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Leo M.J. Dielmann Papers, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, SC COL 883 11_231
Reprinted with permission of the Express-News
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