A Piece of WWI History Rests By a Resort Pool in Dallas
Published: 20 July 2024
By Courtney Bond
via the Texas Monthly website

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At the Hilton Anatole, just northwest of downtown Dallas.
Billionaire Harlan Crow’s Hilton Anatole is home to a propeller from the RMS Lusitania, whose sinking helped lead to the U.S. joining the war.
A Dallas resort’s sculpture garden serves as the final resting place for a bit of history: a propeller from the RMS Lusitania, the British passenger ship torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland during World War I. It belongs to real estate billionaire Harlan Crow, whose mother, incidentally, survived the sinking of the SS Athenia, the first British ship to be torpedoed by Germany in World War II.
The propeller is one of more than a thousand artworks and artifacts—including pieces of the Berlin Wall—at the Crow-owned Hilton Anatole, which boasts one of the largest such collections of any hotel in the country. Of the remaining Lusitania propellers, one rests on the ocean floor, another was melted down, and the other resides at a museum in Liverpool.
But this one—some seventeen tons of bronze, its chipped blades permanently stilled—sits beneath the Texas sun on a path leading to the three-acre JadeWaters Resort pool complex, within sight of lanyard-bedecked conventiongoers and children splashing in sunscreen-scented, turquoise-hued bliss.
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