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Left: The Adolphus Hotel, built in 1912, dominates the Dallas skyline in this early twentieth century photograph.
1911 - George Kessler develops a City Plan for Dallas.
1912 - Adolphus Hotel is built. Houston Street Viaduct connects Oak Cliff to Dallas, the longest concrete structure in the world. Dallas Zoo moves to Marsalis Park in Oak Cliff after several years at City Park.
1913 - May Smith and six nurses establish the Dallas Baby Camp, forerunner of Children's Medical Center. Dallas Equal Suffrage Association is organized to work for voting rights for Texas women. A water filtration plant provides Dallas for the first time with clean, safe water.
1914 - Dallas is selected as the site for the 11th District of the Federal Reserve Bank.
1915 - Southern Methodist University opens.
1916 - Union Terminal opens, consolidating six downtown railroad depots. Dallas voters ban alcoholic beverages at the State Fair in an election instigated by the Mothers' Council.
1917 - Elmer Scott organizes the Civic Federation of Dallas as a community-wide social service agency. Refugees from the Mexican Civil War immigrate to Dallas and form the city's first sizeable Hispanic community. A four-mile-long "Patriotic Parade" celebrates the U.S. entry into the Great War in Europe.
1918 - Dallas, the world's largest inland cotton market, leads the world in cotton gin manufacturing. Public schools, theaters, and churches close, and the State Fair is canceled when an influenza epidemic affects nearly 7,000 victims, killing more than 20.
1919 - Dallas and Dallas County voters approve prohibition and women's suffrage amendments to the state constitution. Dallas chapter of the NAACP persuades the city to cancel a presentation of a stage version of "Birth of a Nation." Dallas raises $7,000,000 for the Liberty Loan Drive to help pay the nation's debt for World War I. P.P. Martinez, who immmigrated from Spain and opened a tobacco store in Dallas in 1876, donates $5,000 to establish a tuberculosis fund for the city.
1920 - Federal Census shows Dallas has grown from 58th largest city in the nation to the 42nd; population is 158,976. Dallas ranks first among Texas cities for percentage of women in the work force.
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