Miss Molly's Hotel

Fort Worth is better known as Cowtown - the last town of any size along the old Chisholm Trail - before the cattle drives headed north across Indian Territory in the late 1800s. The Stockyards National Historic District embodies that spirit, offering daily cattle drives down Exchange Avenue, weekly rodeos, and live country music at numerous honky-tonks and saloons. Miss Molly's Hotel is an authentic Old West boarding house located in the heart of the Stockyards, where you can spend the night like some of the cowboys and cattlemen did when the Stockyards was in its heyday. Honky-tonks, restaurants and specialty Western gifts and attractions are just outside the door. We even offer daily longhorn cattle drives down Exchange Avenue, complete with cowboys who stepped out of the 1890s.

Miss Molly's is on the second floor of a 1910 circa commercial building. While the upstairs has alwas been a lodging establishment of one kind or another, the downstairs has typically been a liquor store or other enterprise in one bay and a restaurant/cafe in the other. For quite some time it's been the Star Cafe, home of the best chicken fried steak anywhere (and their steaks are great, too!)
Come on up the stairs into the middle of the parlor, where the guests gather for breakfast under a stained glass skylight.

Miss Molly's offers a total of eight rooms: seven of them are authentic to the old boarding house right down to the trip down the hall to the three bathrooms that are shared on a first-come basis. Each of these rooms are named and decorated in honor of different aspects of Fort Worth's past. For example, there's the Cattlemen's room with a carved oak queen-size bed below the mounted longhorns, a unique hames table and side chairs below a longhorn hide wall-hanging; and the Rodeo room with pictures and posters and a trunk of rodeo paraphenalia, a double iron bed with patchwork quilt commemmorating the world's first indoor rodeo being held in the Cowtown Coliseum just down the street back in 1918. And then there's Miss Josie's room - named for the madam of the old "bawdy house" named the Gayette Hotel - all gussied up with a draped fabric ceiling and Victorian-era wall paper, a queen-size bed in hand-carved oak head and foot boards; Miss Josie's room boasts its own private bath.

Within a three-block radius of Miss Molly's Hotel, you'll find fourteen restaurants offering a wide variety of foods. You'll also find a similar number of night clubs, including Billy Bob's Texas - the world's largest honky-tonk, the White Elephant Saloon, Big Balls of Cowtown and Rodeo Exchange. The Cowtown Coliseum hosts rodeos every weekend and periodic horsemanship clinics, seasonal runs of the Pawnee Bill Wild West Show, and other special attractions - all where Enrico Caruso once sang, and Elvis Presley gyrated on his way to fame. And did I tell you about our Longhorn herd cattle drives that take place every day?

Miss Molly's Hotel is a non-smoking facility; but we do have a "smoking veranda" outside the kitchen door, so you don't have to go all the way down the stairs for a cigarette! Pets and other livestock have to be boarded down the street at the Stockyards Station Livery.
Because our stairs are open (and there's a lot of 'em down to the street), we don't allow toddlers at Miss Molly's; and most of our guests on Friday and Saturday nights are here to get away from their kids, but through the week, we allow children under the age of 12 (except for the toddlers!).