Feature Accommodations -
Miss Molly's
Bed & Breakfast Hotel,
Fort Worth, Texas
by Carl Burnham
Located
in the heart of the Stockyards Historical
District, Miss Molly's Bed and Breakfast Hotel offers a relaxing stay
that is right next to shops, museums, restaurants,
bars, and attractions. The hotel actually began as a boarding
house in 1910 called The Palace Rooms, and then a bordello during the
1940s.
Each room provides a glimpse of local history, with
themes representing the former life of the hotel, plus the gunslinger,
the railroader, the rodeo, the cowboy, and the cattlemen
that led the cattle drives to the Chisolm Trail from the stockyards
that made Fort Worth famous.

Included on the walls are lots of photographs and memorabilia,
especially of current and former rodeo stars.
There
are seven themed rooms available, including Miss Josie's, Miss Amelia's,
Cattlemen's, Rodeo, Gunslinger, Cowboy's, and Railroader. Each
include antique furnishings,
with vintage iron or oak beds, lace curtains with wood
shutters, and old West memorabilia and decoration. Miss Josie's
room includes an opulent interior and private bathroom, and is named
after the madam who ran a brothel during the 1940s. Miss Amelia's is
named after one of the first owners when it was a boarding house.
The hotel has changed little since being built, with the addition
of modern day essentials such as electricity and air conditioning,
and one original room now an extra bathroom. There are no telephones
or televisions in the rooms, which a true vacation or getaway has
no need for.

Our room, the Cattlemen's,
came with mounted longhorns above the carved oak bed, with a unique
longhorn hide wall decoration, leather chairs, and custom-made table.
An old cast iron coal heater served as a night stand. The Cattlemen
and Cowboy's Rooms are reported to have had sightings of ghostly women
appearing in the rooms. Alas, we saw none (we left the light on the
first night just in case...). Floating "orbs" have also
been photographed at the hotel, which some say are evidence of ghosts.
Each themed room opens
to a main parlor area which includes period furniture and seating,
with an overhead stained glass skylight, which can accomodate small
gatherings and parties. Three bathrooms are available for guests
down the hall from their rooms, with two featuring claw foot iron
tubs and a third a shower, with pull-chain toilets. Bathrobes are
provided during your stay. The rooms are non-smoking, with a balcony
available next to the kitchen for smokers to use.
Just down the street is the largest honky tonk in the world, Billy
Bobs (see our feature coming soon) and the White Elephant Saloon
where scenes from Walker Texas Ranger were filmed.
Twice daily, you can see Texas longhorns as they are steered towards
the original stockyards, along Exchange Avenue right in front of
the hotel.
Miss
Molly's Bed & Breakfast Hotel is located at 109 1/2 W. Exchange
Avenue on the second floor above the Star Cafe (historic in it's
own right as the area's oldest restaurant) in the Stockyard Historic
District. Be sure to look for the Star Cafe sign on the building,
for the entrance to Miss Molly's.
We
would like to thank the owner, Dawn Street
for helping with our feature.
Miss Molly's Bed & Breakfast Hotel 
109 W. Exchange Ave.
Fort Worth, Texas
76106
1-817-626-1522
Fort Worth Hotels
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