title: Carlisle House, Mineral Wells, Texas
date: 1913?
language: English
description: The Carlisle House was owned and managed by Mrs. A[lexander]
 E[mmett] Carlisle, after the death of her husband in 1911. It was one of the
 largest hotels of its day, boasting sixty rooms.  It was destroyed in a fire
 on July 4, 1914.  The  Abilene "Reporter" of July 5, 1914 reports that fire
 began  its course at the Tourist Hotel (located, at the time, at 315 NW 4th
 street). It spread to the New Hazel Hotel (at 305 NW 4th Street), took in the
 Harrel House, (at 301 NW 4th street), the Lake Charles, Louisiana (511 NW 2nd
 Street), and the Burk House, 601  NW 3rd Avenue, as well as seven houses that
 were not hotels.  The fire was so thorough that in 1921, the area was still
 devoid of buildings.
     It was on this site that Mordecai Ham (he who
 converted Billy Graham) put up a tent for a revival on March 23, 1927.  He
 accepted the position of pastor at the First Baptist Church in Oklahoma City
 on June 19, 1927.  He remained in that position until June 16, 1929, when he
 returned to the revival circuit.
     The Carlisle House was located in the
 same block as the the Mineral Wells Clinic, which was known to be in existence
 in 1928.  It later became the Nazareth Hospital (q.v.).
subject: Business, Economics and Finance - Hotels
subject: Social Life and Customs - Homes
coverage: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
coverage: New South, Populism, Progressivism, and the Great Depression,
 1877-1939
coverage: 1913?
rights: Public
type: Photograph
format: Image
identifier: local-cont-no: AWO_0567N
identifier: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16179/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metapth16179