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 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.
Unlike the College Station location 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. It should also be noted that there was a second restaurant connected to Texian Inn's parking lot, a Carl's Jr. restaurant opened in 1985 at 701 South University Parks Drive. This changed hands in 1991 to an Arby's and closed around 2011-2012 before it was torn down for a 7-Eleven gas station and convenience store.
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