William Marsh Rice acquired the Capitol Hotel in 1886. Maintaining the Capitol name, Rice added a three-story annex to contain personal apartments for himself and his second wife, Julia (Charlotte Baldwin Allen's niece). While in residence at his hotel, Rice began drawing up plans to bequeath a polytechnical educational institute to Houston (actually, for its "white inhabitants"). This would eventually become Rice University. The Capitol Hotel property was included in the institute's initial endowment (as was some 10,000 acres of land located in the county that had been named to honor Anson Jones less than a month after his death). | Source: Rice University Archives, Fondren Library Download Original File
