The Hexagon House Hotel, Texas.

House of 1000 gables. Another grand structure with a less than satisfactory conclusion...prepare thyselves. 

In Mineral Wells, Texas, this here building, the Hexagon House Hotel, was completed and opened to the public in 1897. Owned by a Texan rancher with deep pockets who once owned almost 100,000 acres of property in Texas, the hotel boasted 4 stories and was a mighty popular rest stop for travelling folk and well known names. The Hexagon Hotel was designed to encourage maximum air flow throughout the 30 rooms, and was at one point the first hotel in Mineral Wells to have rooms lit by electricity. A 20th century article on the hotel once noted that it offered guests hexagon-shaped plates to eat their Texas cuisine from. Marvellous!

Over 50 years later, the hotel operators were beginning to struggle with the constant upkeep, and the number of patrons was starting to dwindle, though plenty of tourists and local folk came by to admire the impressive exterior. In 1959, the Hexagon House Hotel was demolished. The image below would likely have been taken in the early 1900's.