About Our Downtown Houston Luxury Hotel

The location of the Inn at the Ballpark in downtown, Houston, TX, is rich with history. Situated on Texas Avenue at Crawford Street in the heart of downtown, the site originally housed the residence and garden of Erastus S. Perkins from 1860 to 1926.

During that period, there were several important events that occurred within the vicinity. In 1890, Former President Ulysses S. Grant made a special visit to Houston aboard the first train to arrive at the new Union Station on Crawford Avenue.

Then in 1891, the organization Daughters of the Republic of Texas (originally Daughters of the Lone Star Republic) was founded at the home of Mrs. Andrew Briscoe, whose residence occupied the site at the hotel’s southeast corner.

Hotel Victor was built above the retail shops at 1502-1516 Texas Avenue in 1929, with storefronts including a drugstore, cobbler and kitchen for the hotel. There was a boarding house next door at 1518 Texas Avenue, and a city park offering green space for residents of the surrounding area occupied the corner of Texas and Crawford.

The World Trade Center Building opened at the site on January 29, 1962. Built for a cost of $3 million, it was a 12-story building with an open courtyard, 93,000 square feet of office space and a 120-seat auditorium. It was the first building to be called the World Trade Center, with the largest initial tenant being the World Trade Association.

Landry’s renovated the 12-story building and turned it into a nostalgic baseball-themed hotel, which opened in 2004 and has since become the premier luxury hotel destination in downtown Houston.