Across the street from Union Station (LT32), the hotel is a ten-story slab designed by Houston architect and hotel specialist Joseph Finger. Its spare exterior elevations can be contrasted with the outstanding Art Deco interior spaces in the building’s lobby and on the mezzanine level. The Hotel McCartney, now deserted and crumbling, and Union Station constitute an eloquent reminder of the golden age of rail travel in northeast Texas.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Old Hotel McCartney", [Texarkana, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-LT33.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 105-105.
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