Houston’s Five Most Interesting Hotels

The Crowne Plaza Houston Downtown, originally called The Whitehall, was designed by Welton Becket and Associates and opened its doors in 1963. Since its inception, it has been considered a business hotel, and has hosted such heavy-hitters as Bob Dylan, President Obama and VP Joe Biden. The hotel was also connected via skywalk to the Enron (now Chevron) building and thus it was much used as a convenient meeting spot for company executives, particularly in those last days when the company was going under.