Capitol T
Traveling across Texas
The Capitol T Photography Exhibit premiered at the Texas State Capitol Building on July 10th. The exhibit, hosted in the Ground Floor Rotunda, was part of the guided capitol tours and was enjoyed by many visitors and capitol staffers alike.
The traveling exhibit premiered at the Historic Menger Hotel in San Antonio on October 1st. The Menger, next door to The Alamo, has housed personalities such as Theodore Roosevelt, Sidney Lanier, Babe Ruth, Mae West, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Sarah Bernhardt, and Gutzon Borglum, just to name a few.
The next stop on the tour took the Capitol T Exhibit to the Historic Adolphus Hotel in Dallas. This baroque masterpiece has been a legend among America's historic hotels since 1912, when Missouri beer baron Adolphus Busch was approached by city founders to erect a luxury palace worthy of the Lone Star State. Fame, fortune, and flamboyance came together in 21 stories of unabashed beaux arts splendor that critics have called “the most beautiful building west of Venice.”
The most recent stop on the tour was the Historic Tremont House in Galveston. In the ivoried pages of the century-old register are names now legendary: General Sam Houston, Ulysses S. Grant, Clara Barton, Edwin Booth, Anna Pavlova, Buffalo Bill. From the earliest days of the original Tremont House, built in 1839, the hotel's fortunate Galveston location and its undeniable cachet attracted a fascinating array of visitors from Texas, America and the World. Elegant Victorian ladies and gentlemen came to dance at grand balls: soldiers from three wars returned to homecoming banquets: Sam Houston delivered his last public speech; cotton merchants negotiated deals; Sioux Chiefs sampled southern meals; six Presidents came to call, and refugees of the storm of 1900 sought shelter all within the sturdy walls of The Tremont.