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TIME Magazine, a global publication with an audience of more than 100 million, has tapped a new Fort Worth luxury hotel among its “World’s Greatest Places of 2024.”
The magazine staff included Bowie House on the bricks of Camp Bowie Boulevard as part of its list of 50 places to stay and 50 places to visit worldwide.
Opened in December of last year, in the Cultural District side of town, Bowie House is one of the newest hotels of it size and style in Fort Worth.
“Bowie House’s soul is the West; its spirit transcends that,” TIME says. “The spacious, light-showered guest rooms — studios, lofts and suites — are the stuff of cowboy dreams, equipped with a hat rack, boot jacks, and a bar cart, as well as plenty of upscale touches like rain showers, and, in the signature Goodnight Suite, a crackling fireplace that invites cocooning late into the evening.”
The four-story, 106-room, 35,000-square-foot hotel features elements reminiscent of the West. The hotel features 88 studios, 12 lofts, and six suites, including the Goodnight Suite, an homage to famed rancher Charles Goodnight.
The hotel is owned by Jo Ellard and managed by Auberge Resorts.
Behind the hotel are 11 unique townhomes separated by a central courtyard. A 225-stall parking garage sits underneath the hotel. Bowie House also boasts two in-house restaurants, Bricks and Horses, a contemporary chophouse, and Whinny’s, a light bite eatery that includes frozen drinks and salads.
Some of the other spots that made up the TIME list include White Desert (Antarctica), Anantara Convento di Amalfi Grand Hotel (Italy), Le Grand Mazarin (Paris), Fontainebleau (Las Vegas), and the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui (Thailand).
“The character of the hotel meets my vision,” Ellard said in an interview with Fort Worth Inc. last year. “I want people that come here from all over the world, or even the locals, when they walk in here, they realize that they are in Fort Worth, Texas, and that it has a unique culture. I want it to have a Western influence and an equestrian influence. But I want those influences to be subtle and very sophisticated in their presentation. We have achieved that.”