The Hilton Fort Worth is a historic hotel in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.
History
Constructed from 1920 to 1921 as the Hotel Texas, it was designed by Sanguinet & Staats and Mauran, Russell, & Crowell, with Westlake Construction Co. as the contractor. A two-story addition was constructed to the North in 1963, featuring a bank on the ground floor and a new 25,000 sq ft ballroom on the second level.[3] On November 21, 1963, United States president John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie stayed at the hotel in Room 850. The next morning, Kennedy gave what would be his last address in the Crystal Ballroom, just hours before he was assassinated in Dallas.
The hotel became the Sheraton-Fort Worth Hotel in 1968. A major renovation, completed in 1970,[3] coincided with the opening of the Fort Worth Convention Center, making the hotel a "headquarters hotel" for the center.[4] In the main building, the work involved splitting the original two-story lobby into two floors, with additional meeting rooms on the upper level, and the renovation of the guest rooms, reducing their number to 289.