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Lamar Building

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Lowrie Drug Store Bldg., Crosbyton, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 33° 39' 31.91538999996", -101° 14' 22.7600300004"
 
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    Site of Crosbyton Inn, first hotel here, built 1908, by C. B. Livestock Company to help promote area for cotton farming. A two-story frame building, it was mecca for travelers and land buyers. After fire in 1912, hotel rebuilt over original basement. It was razed in 1920s. A brick office and apartment building was erected by E. H. Hendricks in 1926; purchased 1944 by W. P. Lamar and renamed Lamar Building. Lamar (1889-1946), farmer, businessman, was son of pioneer of Crosby County. 1967

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Lamar Building Historical Marker Location Map, Crosbyton, Texas