Clayton equipped the Beach hotel with a mansard tower, a feature that he has also installed on the St. Mary's Infirmary in 1874.

The three stories and three pavilions of the Beach Hotel rested on a base of 300 piles, arranged in three octagonal structures surrounding a rectangle, decorated in a polychrome-stick style.

Within days after the storm, the Deep Water Committee convened to consider plans for protecting the city from hurricanes.

[4] The Robert Board, the three engineers tasked with the planning of the seawall for the City of Galveston, hired J. M. O'Rourke and Company of Denver as the construction contractor.

While the seawall was under construction, a second complementary project was under way to raise the level of land on the east end of the island, by jacking up the existing structures and underfilling them with slurry.

[5] An organizational meeting convened in Galveston on February 13, 1910 for the purpose of raising capital and planning a resort hotel overlooking the new seawall.

Isaac Herbert Kempner, John Hutchings Sealy, Bertrand Adoue, and Joseph Lobit each pledged a $50,000 investment from their firms.

After a design committee was appointed, Mauran & Russell of St. Louis was chosen as the architecture firm for the hotel.

Meanwhile, the board also contracted with Daniel Philip Ritchey, a hotel design consultant to collaborate with Mauran & Russell.

The Hotel Galvez's importance to the local economy was restored after the war, particularly during the late 1940s and early 1950s when illegal gambling was popular in Galveston.

When the Texas Rangers shut down the illegal gambling industry in the mid-1950s, the local economy became depressed and the Hotel Galvez deteriorated.

It was renamed Grand Galvez Resort & Spa and management was transferred from Wyndham to Marriott's Autograph Collection division.