Construction on the 20-story, 245-room hotel preserved and restored the interior finishes of the W.T. Waggoner Building, which is listed on the National...
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The 20-story Waggoner Building was one of the tallest in the Southwest in the 1920s. The skyscraper’s namesake was William Thomas Waggoner, a wealthy rancher and oilman born in 1852. Waggoner moved to Fort Worth around 1904 and built two office buildings, according to the Texas State Historical Association. He also built the Arlington Downs Racetrack and was a donor for three buildings at Texas Woman’s College at Denton before he died in 1934., the nation’s largest natural gas producer when Exxon Mobil Corp. acquired it for $35 billion in 2010.
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