The Woodbine Hotel and Restaurant in Madisonville, TX | Hotels, Bed & Breakfast

The Woodbine Hotel was originally The Shapira Hotel. Jake and Sarah Shapira, Jewish Russian immigrants, came to Madisonville in the 1870's. The hotel is a landmark for the area and remains the largest home in the county. It is constructed of two “kit houses” purchased in either in St. Louis or Kansas City probably from Sears & Roebuck. The Eastlake house and the Queen Ann Victorian house face each other joined by an upstairs and downstairs parlor. Only the owners' suite had indoor plumbing. Guests used the outhouses and bathhouses located in the back with tub water heated in the kitchen. Eventually, plumbing was added to a few rooms, but many were small rooms. The telephone also came to Madisonville in 1904 and the town's original telephone booth was, and still is, located at the hotel. At the time, it was the only telephone available to the townsfolk.
Susan and Reinhard Warmuth purchased The Woodbine Hotel in October 1999 with plans to return The Woodbine back to its glory days when it was the town's social center and had the finest restaurant in the area. They hope that travelers will again remark, like Norman Kittrel did in 1921: “There is not a hotel in Texas today, barring none, that ever served such meals as were served in that interior hamlet (Madisonville)”.
Bed and Breakfast Guest Room Tour. Overnight accommodations for 17 people plus 1 twin Murphy bed and three twin size rollaway beds. All of our rooms are located on the second floor, accessible by two staircases.
The hotel is a non-smoking facility. Smoking permitted outdoors on covered porches.
Very well behaved children permitted, but not recommended. Pets not permitted.
All rooms have: Color TV with remote and expanded cable programming featuring HBO, ESPN and ESPN II, HGTV. Private baths with whirlpool tubs and showers. Wireless Internet Connections. Direct dial telephones. Phone modems. Writing desks in majority of rooms. Individual heat and A/C controls. Full breakfast for two from the menu
Our Special Events.
- Weddings. We specialize in weddings up to 100 people. We can accommodate larger parties, but that does require the wedding party to rent a tent (to prepare for rain).
- Catering. We also love to host anniversary parties, birthday parties, retirement parties or any reason to celebrate. We also offer lunchs, dinners, afternoon teas, brunch or a holiday parties.