Our Waco coverage coverage continues. While we previously discussed this at Carbon-izer.com, those items are being moved to Numbered Exits.
In reality, Texian Inn (at 115 Jack Kultgen Expressway) was demolished several years ago in the late 2010s and the place where I grabbed the picture from, Agoda.com, seems to have numerous other photos that clearly were not from the same hotel. Texian Inn opened in March 1985 to great fanfare as the hotel chain spread throughout Texas and beyond (they mention that at least one hotel opened outside the state with that name, though I can only confirm Albuquerque and Oklahoma City), with the hotel celebrating one year of business in March 1986. They opened a few in the major Texas cities, and even one in College Station. Within five years, the chain had folded and the motels were sold off (the College Station one, with the Waco one becoming Lexington Inn around 1990, Americas Best Value Inn in the early 2000s, and finally Executive Inn & Suites (around 2015-2016) before being torn down in 2017. Soon after, the Jack in the Box next to it (connected to the parking lot), which had been there next to the motel's entire lifespan, was also torn down. (The restaurant operated from around 1984 to late 2017).
Unlike the College Station Texian Inn it at least kept its original stone facade to the end.
The replacement SpringHill Suites by Marriott was under construction in 2019 and opened in the early 2020s.
UPDATE 05-17-2026: Added address, removed 7-Eleven/Arby's mention
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