Trammell Crow, the legendary real estate developer and founder of Wyndham Hotels, died Wednesday evening at age 94 at this family farm in eastern Texas. The Dallas-born-and-bred Crow was responsible for developing much of the city’s skyline, including the iconic and under-appreciated Wyndham Anatole Hotel (now a Hilton).

He launched  the Wyndham Hotel chain in 1981 and later merged it with Patriot American Hospitality, a real estate investment trust. Crow made his mark outside of Dallas, too, developing such landmark projects as Peachtree Center in Atlanta and the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco.

Crow was a collector of Asian art, and much of his personal collection still adorns the walls of the Anatole Hotel as well as the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas.