May 13, 2019 · Although founder Conrad Hilton’s first hotel was the Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas, the first hotel formally named a Hilton came several years later. The Dallas Hilton, opened in 1925, had the honor of being the first to officially carry the Hilton name.

Hilton opens its first hotel with cold running water and air- conditioning in the public rooms (Waco Hilton, U.S.A.). Hilton becomes the first coast-to-coast hotel chain in the United States with the purchase of two hotels in New York City: the Roosevelt and the Plaza.

May 6, 2019 · In 1919, Conrad Hilton bought the small, 40 room Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas. After returning home from serving in WWI, Hilton raised some money from friends and family, and headed to the Texas oil boomtown of Cisco to buy a bank.

Eager travelers should know that they can no longer stay in the world's first Hilton hotel. It was restored by the Hilton Foundation and turned into the Cisco, Texas, Chamber of Commerce office and community center.

The first hotel to bear the Hilton name was the Dallas Hilton, a high-rise that opened in 1925. [52] The hotel left the chain in 1938 and is currently operated by IHG Hotels & Resorts under the Hotel Indigo brand. The Hilton Anatole opened in 2005 as a …

Conrad Nicholson Hilton (December 25, 1887 – January 3, 1979) was an American hotel magnate and politician who founded the Hilton Hotels chain. From 1912 to 1916, Hilton was a Republican representative in the first New Mexico Legislature, but became disillusioned with the "inside deals" of politics. In 1919, he purchased his first hotel, the ...

The Mobley Hotel is a historic hotel located in Cisco, Texas. It was the first hotel owned by Conrad Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels. It is a two-story brick building. [1]

1955 Hilton Istanbul, the first modern hotel built from the ground up in post-World War II Europe, opens in June. It is a development involving Hilton, the U.S. Department of

In 1938, Hilton bought his first hotel outside of Texas, the Sir Francis Drake in San Francisco. He sold it two years later at a $500,000 profit to raise capital to purchase the Stevens in Chicago, then the largest hotel in the world.

Jun 23, 2023 · In 1925, the first hotel under the Hilton name officially opened in downtown Dallas. The state-of-the-art facility had elevators, air shafts, and laundry shoots - but no air conditioning, so no guest rooms were built facing west. Hilton celebrated many "firsts" in the hotel business.