The Argentina team, led by Lionel Messi and Lionel Scaloni, left his camp in Kansas City on the afternoon of June 21 and settled in at The Adolphus hotel in Dallas, Texas, where they will play the last games of group J: on June 22 against Austria and on the 27th against Jordan.
In Kansas, the Argentine delegation stays at the Origin Hotel and trains at the Compass Minerals Center.
After an hour and a half, the Argentines arrived at The Adolphus, a luxury hotel that opened its doors 114 years agoin 1912, which houses a paranormal mystery associated with the 19th floor and its elevators.
Argentine media MDZ reports that for a decade The Adolphus was the tallest building in Texas. It was conceived as a emblem of Texan modernity at the beginning of the 20th century.
Adolphus Busch purchased the old Dallas City Hall, demolished it, and commissioned the construction of the building in a Beaux Arts style, characterized by symmetry, classical ornamentation, and monumentality. Its design was carried out by architect Thomar Burnett, who designed it as a German-style building with Parisian details, gargoyles and heads of Greek gods.
A bronze clock from 1865 that was brought from Paris is preserved in its walls. It also has a chain that was used to dock the Titanic and one of its attractions is a Steinway piano from 1889, the year in which only two were made: its twin is at the bottom of the sea, sunk with the Titanic, while the other is preserved by the hotel.
Furthermore, it has a painting of Napoleon Bonaparte painted in 1804, whose piece is framed in 24-karat gold leaf.
Between 1920 and 1930 it was the epicenter of social life, with gala dinners and orchestra performances. Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and even Queen Elizabeth II They went through their rooms. The latter presented the hotel with an official portrait for the lobby.
The presidents of the United States also visited it Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush.
It is currently included in the United States National Register of Historic Places. Between 2017 and 2018, a comprehensive renovation brought prominence back to the hotel, which has more than 400 rooms where contemporary design and classic details coexist.
Luxury and paranormal mysteries
The Adolphus is considered one of the most important hotels in Dallas and one of the longest continuous operating times in the United States.
On its seventh level it has a spa, outdoor pool and gym. However, these luxuries are overshadowed by the chilling stories and legends that surround the establishment.
According to Dallas Magazine, two weeks after the Adolphus opened, a waiter fell three stories down an elevator shaft.
In the first 10 years, an employee of a construction company drank a bottle labeled “poison”; an insurance agent “he sank on the sidewalk” nearby and died in the hotel. Additionally, an elevator operator fell 30 meters and died while trying to jump from one elevator to another.
According to newspaper clippings compiled as part of an investigation by Dallas History magazine, since then there would have been at least 11 documented deaths.
In 1927, a cook stuck his head out and was crushed to death through the elevator car.
The LoveToKnow site and other local publications compile stories of accidental deaths, suicides and a confessed homicide decades later, along with accounts of doors that open by themselves, night music in empty rooms and the figure of a woman dressed in white that walks through the hallways.
In 2009, a video on YouTube recorded how elevator doors open and close while the phones start ringing.
In the 1920s, The Adolphus opened the Century Room on the 19th floor, which attracted renowned musicians. These performed before a large audience that enjoyed smuggled whiskey.
In 1930, the hotel housed a retractable ice rink which hosted traveling shows for 35 years.
Guests on that floor say that they often They hear screams, footsteps and even the creaking of a rope.
Adolphus himself has his version of the story of a ghost who wanders the halls in a white dress wedding, perhaps looking for her groom among the guests.
The hotel’s official site confirms the legend: “Like every haunted hotel, the Adolphus has his own “Lady in White””».
“In the 1930s, a bride heartbroken and abandoned at the altar It had a tragic end. Legend has it that, after hours of waiting in the 19th floor ballroom, the heartbroken bride took her own life, hanging herself right above the place where she was supposed to say “I do.” Now, almost a century later, guests continue to report alleged sightings of a mysterious woman dressed in white wandering the halls of level 19. Some say she is still searching for her missing boyfriend, refusing to believe that the wedding has been canceled,” the hotel says.
In the 1980s, the hotel was renovated through a remodeling that cost US$480 million.
Now, to spend a night at the Adolphus, you must pay between US$300 and US$600.
In its bar you can order drinks and read a special menu containing poems and stories about its resident ghosts.
The Adolphus is one of the great tourist icons, to the point that guided tours related to its history are offered in Dallas.
The Argentine newspaper MDZ confirmed with the Argentine Football Association (AFA) that the FIFA organizing committee directly decides where the footballers stay.