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www.docubloggers.org Jesse Lincoln Driskill made and lost a fortune in the cattle business. Originally born in Tennessee, Driskill moved his family to Austin in 1870, which, at the time was the Westernmost metropolis in the state of Texas. He quickly fell in love with Austin and felt that the city needed a first class hotel that could rival the great hotels of the large cities of the day. So in 1884, he purchased a city block of land downtown and hired architect Jasper Preston to design the building. Six million bricks and tons of limestone were used in the construction, which featured three grand entrances, gargoyles, stone busts of Driskill and his two sons and the largest arched doorway in Texas. At a cost of almost $400000 “The finest hotel South of St. Louis” opened to the public on December 20, 1886 with all the luxury amenities of the time. However, the Driskill was the most expensive hotel in the city, charging almost double what the other hotels charged. As a result, it didn’t make much money. Within five months of it opening, it was closed. According to the Handbook of Texas, a late spring freeze in 1888 killed most of Driskill’s cattle. Payments on the hotel could not be met, and Driskill was forced to sell his dream. Driskill died, some said a broken man, two years later. Driskill’s grave is not the opulent marker of a man one would expect: Just a simple granite headstone, set next to his family in a small corner of the nearly-abandoned Oakwood Cemetery. A …