The tall building is the Old Brownwood Hotel. It is still standing today. My (Ruth Scott) Mother and Father spent their Honeymoon there in May 1936.
Life and Lives of Brown County People Book 4, Brown County Historical Society.
November 21, 1930
Formal opening of Hotel Brownwood. There were 225 fire proof rooms. The price at the time was $2.00 and up. A partial list of material used in the construction were...Seventy five car loads of brick and tile, one hundred twenty six loads of rock, ninety six train carloads of sand, forty three loads of cement. Twenty three loads of steel and fifteen loads of plaster.
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