This recently restored structure, now a bed-and-breakfast, is said to have been built by Chinese railroad workers. Built of the locally made D'Hanis brick, the hotel is a two-story design with a deep, frame, front porch on both levels. The hotel operated until 1920, when it was acquired by the Farmers Exchange of D'Hanis, which operated a feed store here.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "J. M. Koch Hotel", [D'Hanis, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-CJ16.
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 224-224.
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