hotel closed

 

If you are seeking lodging in Clarendon, don't plan on the downtown hotel.  The sign in the alley tells you it is closed -- if the open air windows weren't a clue. In the 1880s the Panhandle had cattle and cowboys but few towns.  Clarendon was originally established as a town where cowboys could "dry out.  Methodist minister Lewis Carhart envisioned Clarendon as a "sobriety settlement" and named it after his wife Clara. If you had stayed here then the "no liquor-no gambling" rule was in effect. For over 100 years Clarendon was dry but a recent election approved liquor sales, despite some opposition.  So today you could buy a beer and enjoy it at the "It'll DO Motel."

 

Clarendon, Texas

2.21.2014