In 1949 McCarthy built the luxurious Shamrock Hotel in Houston, spending $21,000,000 for its construction.
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In 1882, Quinlan leased the Shamrock Hotel in Perth from Daniel Connor, an expiree convict who had become one of the wealthy men in the colony.