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Friday, October 25, 2013

Wynnewood Hotel - Wynnewood Motor Hotel

One block off U.S. Highway 67 & 77  -  150 Wynnewood Village  -  WOodlawn 8131
Located in Wynnewood Village, a "City within a City", 10 minutes from Downtown Dallas, West of Highway 67 (Zangs Blvd.) and Illinois -- The "Crossroads of Oak Cliff" 

Although one of these pictures is a photo and one an illustration I think they look like pretty much the same building.  A 1959 ad described the "Hotel" as having 73 rooms and a postcard for the "Motor Hotel" also listed 73 rooms so I'm going to assume they are the same thing. The earliest mention of the Wynnewood Hotel I found was in 1951, so I'm guessing that was about when it opened for business. In 1959, like the Hotel Miramar, it was one of 30 first class hotels listed as members of the Dallas Hotel Association. With 73 rooms the Wynnewood was one of the smaller hotels. Sometime after 1959 the name changed from Hotel to Motor Hotel, possibly because of its more suburban location. I found nothing about the hotel-motel after 1959 except a handwritten note on the back of a postcard that stated it was out of business in 1966. 

The hotel may have faced Illinois Avenue, and the top photo may be a view of it from the shopping area across the street. Alternately, the back of the hotel may have faced Illinois and so Wynnewood would be beyond the back of this building. Employment ads of the 1950s directed job applicants to apply at 2200 Nicholson Drive, so maybe the above photo includes that street. Since the 1960s there has been a kind of "village" of apartment complexes at this location and the tall trees now make the site almost unrecognizable. Possibly the apartment buildings were built in the same style as the hotel and the hotel was absorbed into the surroundings.

 

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