Blackstone Hotel, Art Deco hotel in Downtown Fort Worth, United States.
The Blackstone Hotel is a skyscraper in downtown Fort Worth with 23 stories and decorative terracotta cladding. The upper floors feature characteristic setbacks that define the Art Deco style.
The hotel opened in 1929 and welcomed several American presidents including Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy. It reflects Fort Worth's growth as a prosperous commercial city during that period.
Locals still call the building the Blackstone even though it operates as the Courtyard Fort Worth Downtown/Blackstone. The name survives from the 1929 hotel, whose Venetian Ballroom hosted the Texas Democratic Executive Committee in September 1948 to rule on Lyndon B. Johnson's narrow victory over Coke Stevenson. A small set of original terrazzo steps leading nowhere remains in the lobby.
The hotel stands at the corner of Fifth and Main Streets downtown, reachable on foot from the surrounding blocks. It has 23 stories and 284 rooms, with meeting space and a ballroom. The 1950s annex now holds an indoor valet parking garage, with a pool and workout room on its top floor.
Fort Worth's first radio station, WBAP, broadcast from the Blackstone Hotel during the 1930s. This historical role made it an important site in the city's radio broadcasting history.
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