The original Tremont House was located at the corner of Postoffice and Tremont Streets.
The sturdy two-story building was the largest and finest hotel in the Republic of Texas.
Elegant Victorians came to dance at grand balls, and soldiers from three wars returned to homecoming banquets.
Sam Houston delivered his last public speech. Cotton merchants haggled over deals, and Sioux chiefs sampled Southern cuisine.
Six American presidents and foreign ministers from France and England came to call. During the Civil War, Confederate, then Union, soldiers made a home in the hotel.
In 1900, a monster hurricane barreled into the Gulf of Mexico and landed a direct hit on the island.
As the economy slipped into depression, the once-grand hotel feel into ruin and the Tremont House was demolished in 1928.
In 1985, George and Cynthia Mitchell acquired the architecturally lavish Leon & H. Blum Building and began its transformation into the new Tremont hotel.
Once the South’s premiere wholesale dry goods concern, the 1879 building is now a remarkable hotel that captures the spirit and elegance of its predecessors.