The Falls Hotel in Marlin, TX

This turn-of-the-century Texas town grew up rapidly after the discovery of hot mineral water in 1893. Bath houses, hotels, hospitals and boarding houses went up one after another until the city became one of the world’s leading health resorts up until the late 1960’s. The advent of modern medicine caused the popularity of the baths to wane; however the mystique around the water’s healing powers still lingers.
The Falls Hotel was originally known as the Hilton Hotel, having been built by Conrad Hilton in 1929. It was the eighth hotel in his chain. The 110 room hotel was connected by underground tunnel to the Marlin Sanitarium Bath House across the street which stood at the present site of the gazebo park. Bathers could walk in robe and slippers straight to their hot mineral baths.