Little Hotel

The big hotel it copied was the Gracys' stagecoach stop, and accounts disagree about its age: one dates the Star Hotel to 1856 with ten rooms added in 1870, another has stonemason Charles Green building it in 1870. Either way, the Little Hotel was its small sibling, with windows, doors and fireplaces to match. Local accounts put a night at fifty cents in the big hotel and twenty-five in the little one. The big hotel was renamed the Keystone in 1926. The Little Hotel stands on private property, so look from the street.

What the plaque says

Little Hotel After the nearby Gracy (now Keystone) Hotel was completed in 1870, it was decided to use the leftover stone for the construction of a "Little Hotel." Built for J. L. N. Gracy and his bride, the structure contained a private apartment upstairs and rooms for travelers downstairs. It was constructed by Charles Green, a stonemason who worked on several other buildings in the area, including the Gracy Hotel and the Coleman County Courthouse and Jail. The Little Hotel now serves as a reminder of the pioneer heritage and craftsmanship of Lampasas. (1984)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hancock Springs Park — 0.8 mi
  Lampasas's city park on Sulphur Creek, with a spring-fed swimming pool that holds about 69 degrees all year, the walls of the old bathhouse and a golf course.
• Colorado Bend State Park — 18 mi
  Old ranch country on the Colorado above Lake Buchanan, where a spring-fed creek drops 70 feet over fern-covered travertine at Gorman Falls.
• Inks Lake State Park — 25 mi
  A state park on a constant-level lake of the Colorado, between Buchanan and Inks dams, with pink granite and gneiss at the water and CCC work along Park Road 4.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 27 mi
  A free federal hatchery below Inks Dam on the Colorado, with thirty production ponds that draw birds and a look at how fish are raised from egg to harvest.

More markers nearby

• Pierian Club — steps away
• Gunfight at the Lampasas Saloon — steps away
• Horrell-Higgins Feud — steps away
• Texas Bankers Association — steps away