Detail from the Gage Hotel in Marathon
by Carol M Highsmith
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Detail from the Gage Hotel in Marathon
Artist
Carol M Highsmith
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Photograph - Prints, Posters & Canvas
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Detail from the Gage Hotel in Marathon, Texas. Alfred Gage came to Texas from Vermont in 1878, eager to make his fortune as a rancher, banker and businessman. In 1927, Gage commissioned El Paso architects Trost and Trost to design the Gage as a hotel and ranch headquarters for his 500,000-acre ranch. Gage died in 1928, only one year after construction was completed.
In 1978, J.P. Bryan and his wife, Mary Jon, bought the building and returned The Gage Hotel to its turn-of-the-century trans-Pecos appearance, melding the region’s ranching heritage of Mexican, Spanish and Native American cultures.
The hotel's bedrooms are iconically small, since they were originally used for sleeping, not lounging or TV watching, by crusty cowboys.
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April 17th, 2015
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