Keywords: The once-elegant El Jardin Hotel in Brownsville, Texas, with its faded welcome sign "BIENVENIDOS AMIGOS DE MEXICO" LCCN2014630469.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Credit line The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Forms part of Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; DLC/PP-2014 054 ; The hotel opened in 1927 and it counted Hollywood stars and celebrities such as Amelia Earhart among its famous guests The hotel fell on hard times for lack of patronage closed in the mid-1980 and stood empty and deteriorating for years In 2014 a new owner Captain McCurry Captain is his given name a Rio Grande Valley transplant from Virginia has not immediately disclosed plans for the landmark 2014 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2014630469 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/26200/26269a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 26269 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 26269 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith |