The nearly century-old but shuttered Herring Hotel in downtown Amarillo recently was designated to the National Register of Historic Places.
The designation went into effect on Jan. 25, according to an email Friday from the National Park Service. The National Register nomination form can be read here.
In 2022, several media outlets reported about a project to restore and revive the Herring Hotel, including a website called HerringHotelProject.com.
The website is dead, but this unlisted YouTube video about the project lives on.
County property records at the time indicated the building was acquired by Herring Hotel Development Co. LLC via a warranty deed. It still is the building’s owner.
Since then, crickets. One has to assume the project paused when interest rates began rising sharply. With rates projected to go down this year, it seems more likely the owners eventually will emerge from the shadows.
Oilman, banker and rancher Cornelius Taylor Herring built the 14-story, 600-room hotel in 1926.
The hotel briefly was converted into office space in the early 1970s. It has been abandoned for close to 40 years. The Herring was listed on Preservation Texas’ Most Endangered Places in 2006.
The Herring Hotel stands at 311 Southeast Third Ave. between the northbound and southbound lanes of Business Route 66 in Amarillo, before Route 66 turns west on Sixth Avenue.
(Image of the Herring Hotel in April 2015 by Barbara Brannon via Flickr)
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