tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79120694660935282432024-02-18T20:17:59.039-08:00Hotel Around the WorldAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.comBlogger725125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-63874676749237112052015-05-20T12:30:00.001-07:002015-05-20T12:30:01.858-07:00Silversmith Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLRW9HYWVKPuY0fww3ZJ0DZZURw3jesvESkceQynMHn1m6NCQMWXU-k9qxCGJF6lHFBQhhihOnQzHbbcdMXUp8iJ6tqWIVqyWYIWgbS0TSc6Ngs9OHyK-YrRCMS3J3wjK2tm6oePu8hCo/s1600/116674_158_z-701858.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLRW9HYWVKPuY0fww3ZJ0DZZURw3jesvESkceQynMHn1m6NCQMWXU-k9qxCGJF6lHFBQhhihOnQzHbbcdMXUp8iJ6tqWIVqyWYIWgbS0TSc6Ngs9OHyK-YrRCMS3J3wjK2tm6oePu8hCo/s320/116674_158_z-701858.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6151038281099756498" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The <b>Silversmith Hotel & Suites</b> is a boutique hotel located in downtown Chicago, Illinois, USA. Managed by Remington Hotels Inc., the hotel occupies the historic <b>Silversmith Building</b>. In the late 1890s, the Arts and Crafts Movement began to replace Romanesque Revival architecture. In 1896, Peter J. Weber, of the architectural firm of D.H. Burnham and Company, designed the Silversmith to reflect this transition. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p> <h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><img title="Silversmith Hotel - Silversmith Hotel & Suites - Hotels in Chicago IL - Hotels.com" alt="Silversmith Hotel - Silversmith Hotel & Suites - Hotels in Chicago IL - Hotels.com" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://exp.cdn-hotels.com/hotels/1000000/120000/116700/116674/116674_155_z.jpg"><br> <ul><li>National Register of Historic Places listings in Chicago</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Silversmith Hotel - Silversmith Hotel & Suites - Hotels in Chicago IL - Hotels.com" alt="Silversmith Hotel - Silversmith Hotel & Suites - Hotels in Chicago IL - Hotels.com" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://exp.cdn-hotels.com/hotels/1000000/120000/116700/116674/116674_145_z.jpg"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Silversmith Hotel - Silversmith Hotel Chicago Downtown, Chicago, Illinois : Hotéis em ..." alt="Silversmith Hotel - Silversmith Hotel Chicago Downtown, Chicago, Illinois : Hotéis em ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://exp.cdn-hotels.com/hotels/1000000/120000/116700/116674/116674_166_z.jpg"><br> <ul><li>The Silversmith Hotel</li> </ul><p><br></p></h2><br><img title="Silversmith Hotel - The Silversmith Hotel Chicago (Illinois) - Reviews and Rates ..." alt="Silversmith Hotel - The Silversmith Hotel Chicago (Illinois) - Reviews and Rates ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://images.travelpod.com/cache/accom_maps/The-Silversmith-Hotel-Chicago.gif"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-3269702134572785922015-05-20T01:00:00.001-07:002015-05-20T01:00:02.460-07:00Shutters On The Beach Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFQZL-Qz2G8GP4k3DUqlqTVNFopBg9Ttr9A_q_YVaHLkrduPHf-d7kbjrHPI256WtaMydUGgIdoE9zeEhG3JBqPSU0DDspQH27QTWnK4XWtSL0U25nr1wc0SrE_X3U1R21rpRrCtHLw8c/s1600/shutters_pool_ocean_view1-1024x680-702461.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFQZL-Qz2G8GP4k3DUqlqTVNFopBg9Ttr9A_q_YVaHLkrduPHf-d7kbjrHPI256WtaMydUGgIdoE9zeEhG3JBqPSU0DDspQH27QTWnK4XWtSL0U25nr1wc0SrE_X3U1R21rpRrCtHLw8c/s320/shutters_pool_ocean_view1-1024x680-702461.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6150860478809329378" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>Independently owned and operated by the Beverly Hills-based Edward Thomas Collection of Hotels (ETC Hotels), who also own Casa del Mar next door, Shutters on the Beach is a luxury hotel located on the beach in Santa Monica in Southern California.</p> <p>A member of The Leading Hotels of the World, Shutters on the Beach offers two restaurants: One Pico and Coast Beach Café and Bar. One Pico, Shuttersâ signature restaurant, was designed and renovated by Michael S. Smith in the spring of 2008 and boasts a Wine Spectator award-winning wine list. Coast Beach Café & Bar opened its doors in the summer of 2007 and was designed by Jim Gillam.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img title="Shutters On The Beach Hotel - Shutters on the Beach | An Iconic Luxury Santa Monica Hotel" alt="Shutters On The Beach Hotel - Shutters on the Beach | An Iconic Luxury Santa Monica Hotel" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.shuttersonthebeach.com/sites/default/files/surfer.jpg%3F1410871722"><br> <p>The property on which Shutters sits, and where the old Edgewater club of the 1920s once stood, was abandoned and foreclosed when ETC purchased it in 1991. Shutters on the Beach opened its doors on June 8, 1993.</p> <h2><span id="Design_.26_style">Design & style</span></h2><br><img title="Shutters On The Beach Hotel - Krystelle and Anthony's Wedding | Shutters on the Beach Hotel ..." alt="Shutters On The Beach Hotel - Krystelle and Anthony's Wedding | Shutters on the Beach Hotel ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.meganstarkblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Lino_shutters_0011(pp_w900_h600).jpg"><br> <p>The hotel architecture has been said to recall both East Coast beach homes and the traditional architecture of Americaâs beachfront resorts and inviting cottages of the Southern California coast during the 1920s and 1930s. Built by Hill Architects (Palo Alto, CA), the hotel's three separate buildings comprise the hotelâs structure, all visually linked by slate-grey shingled siding, balconies and cabana-striped awnings.</p> <p>Artists represented in the hotel's collection include Jasper Johns, Frank Gehry, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, William Wegman, Richard Diebenkorn, Claes Oldenburg, as well as others.</p> <p>Shutters on the Beach houses 186 guest rooms and 12 suites.</p> <p>Interior designer Michael S. Smith was commissioned in 2005 to re-invent the hotel rooms. Many rooms at this hotel are configured to yield views of the coastline and Pacific Ocean. Four-poster beds, comfortable lounge chairs, walnut desks and nightstands, and custom-made white linens are signature aspects of the hotel's furnishings. Smith also designed ONE, the hotel's spa, which was his first-ever spa design.</p> <p>Shutters is also notable for having partnered with famous designers, such as Joie, Kate Spade, and Claire Vivier.</p> <h2><span id="Shop_with_the_chef">Shop with the chef</span></h2><br><img title="Shutters On The Beach Hotel - Shutters on the Beach | An Iconic Luxury Santa Monica Hotel" alt="Shutters On The Beach Hotel - Shutters on the Beach | An Iconic Luxury Santa Monica Hotel" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.shuttersonthebeach.com/sites/default/files/exterior-main_0.jpg%3F1410871624"><br> <p>Shutters offers a unique option. On Wednesdays, Chef Michael Reardon and staff take guests to the famous Santa Monica Farmers Market to select and influence the materials that will become that evening's special "Market Dinner" selection as described by travel writer Bill Tomicki in the ENTREE Travel Newsletter.[1]</p> <h2><span id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</span></h2><br><img title="Shutters On The Beach Hotel - Shutters on the Beach Hotel, Santa Monica - Hotel Gifts" alt="Shutters On The Beach Hotel - Shutters on the Beach Hotel, Santa Monica - Hotel Gifts" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://hotel.gifts/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/shutters_room_ocean_view2-1024x680.jpg"><br> <ul><li>In the 2003 film <i>Somethingâs Gotta Give</i>, Shutters' One Pico restaurant stood in for a Hamptons restaurant where Diane Keaton and Keanu Reeves's characters meet.</li> </ul><h2><span id="Awards_.26_honors">Awards & honors</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>#14, Best Hotels in Los Angeles 2013 (U.S. News & World Report)</li> <li>Wine Spectator Award of Excellence 2011 (One Pico), (Wine Spectator)</li> <li>Wine Spectator Award of Excellence 2010 (One Pico), (Wine Spectator)</li> <li>#1, Best Southern California Coastal Getaways 2010 (Huffington Post)</li> <li>500 World's Best Hotels, 2009 (Travel + Leisure)</li> <li>Wine Spectator Award of Excellence 2009 (One Pico), (Wine Spectator)</li> <li>#83, Top 100 Hotels in Continental US & Canada 2008 (Travel + Leisure)</li> <li>Forbes Traveler 400, The World's Very Best Hotels and Resorts 2008 (Forbes Traveler)</li> <li>Most Iconic Beach Hotel, public vote (Beach Tomato)</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Shutters on the Beach</li> <li>Shutters on Facebook</li> <li>Shutters on Twitter</li> <li>Shutters blog</li> <li>Shutters Beach Style</li> </ul><p></p></h2><br><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-72328321260442498252015-05-19T20:30:00.001-07:002015-05-19T20:30:01.814-07:00Shoreland Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga7u6z41YX0YNEgVGqBnr3cs22u8jJgSJJ9zoSPQ2Px6LWfM7W6wykIaICQth62J-ePURIwst1F-vFp4eHQgzLnTzwTdPZAoSUP7szm08LJWvfelnSaT0tq-2GRFV84Y75Eiy0YK10mkE/s1600/1019px-Shoreland_Hotel-701815.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga7u6z41YX0YNEgVGqBnr3cs22u8jJgSJJ9zoSPQ2Px6LWfM7W6wykIaICQth62J-ePURIwst1F-vFp4eHQgzLnTzwTdPZAoSUP7szm08LJWvfelnSaT0tq-2GRFV84Y75Eiy0YK10mkE/s320/1019px-Shoreland_Hotel-701815.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6150790894619760034" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p><b>The Shoreland</b> is a historic hotel building in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It served as a residence hall of the University of Chicago for many years, before being converted to an apartment building in 2013.</p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img title="Shoreland Hotel - The World's most recently posted photos of shorelandhotel - Flickr ..." alt="Shoreland Hotel - The World's most recently posted photos of shorelandhotel - Flickr ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3250/3292145988_ec392aca0f_m.jpg"><br> <p>The Shoreland Hotel was opened in 1926 by Harry Fawcett, who reportedly spent $2 million on furnishings alone. The Shoreland Hotel maintained 1,000 guest rooms over 13 floors, a crystal ballroom, a large banquet hall with a top-notch restaurant and an immaculate lobby with 30-foot-high ceilings. Its terra-cotta exterior featured gargoyles and other elaborate stonework. It hosted countless wedding receptions and parties for Chicago's elite, including a massive banquet held when Amelia Earhart returned triumphantly in 1928 to the Hyde Park neighborhood where she had attended high school. Later, Al Capone was known to conduct "business" in certain rooms. In the 1950s, Jimmy Hoffa kept a room in the hotel and often held raucous union meetings there. As the story goes, one of Hoffa's underlings choked the hotel manager, Maurice Bellows in the lobby after he dared to ask the union boss to pay his debt to the hotel. Marge Bellows, was the Shoreland's owner, making the hotel the largest hotel in the country with a woman in charge, at the time. Another notable resident was Milton Friedman, who occupied rooms in the Shoreland at the same time as Hoffa. Elvis Presley also spent several nights at the Shoreland.</p> <p>Over time the hotel began to lose its splendor, and in the 1970s it was sold for $750,000 to the University of Chicago. It then became a dormitory, known as <b>Shoreland Hall</b>, and housed approximately 650 undergraduate students. However, in the spring of 2004 the university decommissioned the Shoreland as a dormitory, citing increasing maintenance costs and decreasing popularity among incoming students. It remained in use by the university through spring quarter of 2009, after which it will be turned over to a Chicago developer that specializes in historical preservation.</p> <p>The University sold the Shoreland for $6 million to Kenard Corporation, who had planned to turn it into 260 condominiums. Hal Lichterman, the president of the corporation, had said he hoped to put a restaurant in the old banquet hall and would otherwise gut the building. In fall 2006, after Hal Lichterman's death, Kenard resold the Shoreland for $10 million to R.D. Horner & Associates, one of the three initial bidders on the property. Horner & Associates plans to carry out Kenard's exact plans for converting the dormitory into condominiums. They had originally planned to open the building as early as late 2009, but in April 2007, the University exercised its option to keep the Shoreland open as a dormitory for the 2008-09 academic year.</p> <p>The Shoreland was sold yet again to New Jersey-based Antheus Capital (through its 5454 S. Shore Drive LLC holding) in August 2008 for $16 million. Antheus Capital and MAC Property Management has decided to develop its own plans for the Shoreland. Antheus took over the lease with the University of Chicago, expiring in 2009.</p> <p>It was converted to apartments and reopened in 2013 with a total of 330 units.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Shoreland Hotel - POSTCARD â" CHICAGO â" SHORELAND HOTEL- 55TH AT THE LAKE â" AERIAL ..." alt="Shoreland Hotel - POSTCARD â" CHICAGO â" SHORELAND HOTEL- 55TH AT THE LAKE â" AERIAL ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="https://chuckmanchicagonostalgia.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/postcard-chicago-shoreland-hotel-55th-at-the-lake-aerial-view-of-shoreline-1936.jpg"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Shoreland Hotel - Inside the Shoreland Hotel's New Luxury Rentals | Chicago magazine ..." alt="Shoreland Hotel - Inside the Shoreland Hotel's New Luxury Rentals | Chicago magazine ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.chicagomag.com/galleries/1753/45787-RO3Fnvs-TD3qHnLCmLHmTMx7IR999Pc-Irm0hfedpkA.jpg"><br> <ul><li>Shoreland Chicago official website</li> <li>Aerial image of the Shoreland under construction</li> </ul><p><span></span></p></h2><br><img title="Shoreland Hotel - The World's most recently posted photos of shorelandhotel - Flickr ..." alt="Shoreland Hotel - The World's most recently posted photos of shorelandhotel - Flickr ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3415/3292145106_2b4a298d89_m.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-36151138306629884982015-05-19T11:30:00.001-07:002015-05-19T11:30:02.430-07:00Sheraton Kansas City Hotel At Crown Center<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Rzk4Q8vCqlOIj39_LBH0DLsGgIEeE1jWwPmV5LSR3ncJxH5jaUlZzDF4X3YS0MPEJCyffmoVVsxK49Ivl9rIyixssVJsPx4qDkYmolPZXuOep7GbIk9j_gvsoG2A_eblWRFbIgvme1I/s1600/Hyatt_Regency_Crown_Center_Kansas_City_MO-702430.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Rzk4Q8vCqlOIj39_LBH0DLsGgIEeE1jWwPmV5LSR3ncJxH5jaUlZzDF4X3YS0MPEJCyffmoVVsxK49Ivl9rIyixssVJsPx4qDkYmolPZXuOep7GbIk9j_gvsoG2A_eblWRFbIgvme1I/s320/Hyatt_Regency_Crown_Center_Kansas_City_MO-702430.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6150651740758106690" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The <b>Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center</b> is a 504.0 ft (153.62 m), 45-story hotel in the Crown Center complex in Kansas City, Missouri.</p> <p>The hotel opened on July 1, 1980 as the <b>Hyatt Regency Kansas City</b> and was Missouri's tallest building from 1980 to 1986. It is now the state's sixth tallest building and is Kansas City's third tallest building.</p> <p>In 1987, the hotel was renamed <b>Hyatt Regency Crown Center</b>. It was again renamed the <b>Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center</b> on December 1, 2011.</p> <p>The Crown Center complex was built by Hallmark, adjacent to their headquarters, and southeast of the Downtown freeway loop where most of Kansas City's tallest buildings are located.</p> <p>It has 42,860 sq ft (3,982 m<sup>2</sup>) of function space, a 17,487 sq ft (1,624.6 m<sup>2</sup>) ballroom and a dedicated exhibit hall with 15,360 sq ft (1,427 m<sup>2</sup>). It has 733 guestrooms, including 42 suites.</p> <p>The hotel was formerly topped by a revolving rooftop restaurant, Skies, which closed along with the hotel's Peppercorn Duck Club when the hotel became a part of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. The former Skies restaurant reopened as the Sheraton Club Lounge-- a private club offering complimentary breakfast, afternoon hors dâoeuvres and a variety of beverage options. </p> <h2><span id="Skybridge_collapse">Skybridge collapse</span></h2><br><img title="Sheraton Kansas City Hotel At Crown Center - Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center (Best Price Guaranteed ..." alt="Sheraton Kansas City Hotel At Crown Center - Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center (Best Price Guaranteed ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://images.trvl-media.com/hotels/1000000/20000/14300/14297/14297_95_z.jpg"><br> <p>On July 17, 1981, 114 people were killed in the hotel when the fourth floor walkway in the atrium collapsed on the second floor walkway during a tea dance attended by more than 1,300 revelers in the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse. An investigation revealed that tie rods supporting the walkway did not meet Kansas City building codes.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Sheraton Kansas City Hotel At Crown Center - Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, Kansas City | 121804 ..." alt="Sheraton Kansas City Hotel At Crown Center - Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, Kansas City | 121804 ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.emporis.com/images/show/881733-Large.jpg"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Sheraton Kansas City Hotel At Crown Center - New Crown Center Hotel owner donating to fatal collapse memorial ..." alt="Sheraton Kansas City Hotel At Crown Center - New Crown Center Hotel owner donating to fatal collapse memorial ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://kctv.images.worldnow.com/images/505644_G.jpg"><br> <ul><li>Hotel official website</li> <li>Sheraton official webpage</li> </ul></h2><br><img title="Sheraton Kansas City Hotel At Crown Center - Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, Kansas City | 121804 ..." alt="Sheraton Kansas City Hotel At Crown Center - Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, Kansas City | 121804 ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.emporis.com/images/show/883267-Large.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-47639931471904812542015-05-19T02:30:00.001-07:002015-05-19T02:30:05.871-07:00Shamrock Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH7MaQ1vj9JFdcP_K_i6faYNu4vxD_2pL2Lvda2xfbLN68ZLPICFwHg0yOqF9g-vPW4lr6xVvXXjsuGhkLOJIQQ9SOvNN5yupUm43rMniG05E6OCf9sp3BCn7OwN6b8OHpkTedoPM3cAM/s1600/Shamrock-Hotel-Pool-705872.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH7MaQ1vj9JFdcP_K_i6faYNu4vxD_2pL2Lvda2xfbLN68ZLPICFwHg0yOqF9g-vPW4lr6xVvXXjsuGhkLOJIQQ9SOvNN5yupUm43rMniG05E6OCf9sp3BCn7OwN6b8OHpkTedoPM3cAM/s320/Shamrock-Hotel-Pool-705872.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6150512597636981762" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p><span></span></p> <p>The <b>Shamrock</b> was a hotel constructed between 1946 and 1949 by wildcatter Glenn McCarthy southwest of downtown Houston, Texas next to the Texas Medical Center. It was the largest hotel built in the United States during the 1940s. The grand opening of the Shamrock is still cited as one of the biggest social events ever held in Houston. Sold to Hilton Hotels in 1955 and operated for over three decades as the <b>Shamrock Hilton</b>, the facility endured financial struggles throughout its history. In 1985, Hilton Hotels donated the building to the Texas Medical Center and the structure was demolished on June 1, 1987.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Design_and_construction">Design and construction</span></h2><br><img title="Shamrock Hotel - Shamrock Hotel | All World Hotel Online Database" alt="Shamrock Hotel - Shamrock Hotel | All World Hotel Online Database" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.owenwilson.com.au/system/files/imagecache/product_full/QT0097%2520%2520%2520The%2520Shamrock%2520Hotel%2520Townsville%2520QLD%2520_DSC0806.jpg"><br> <p>Designed by Fort Worth architect Wyatt C. Hedrick, the eighteen-story building with a green tile pitched roof and 1,100 rooms was conceived by McCarthy as a city-sized hotel scaled for conventions with a resort atmosphere. The hotel was located in a suburban area three miles (5 km) southwest of downtown Houston at the acute southwest corner of Main Street and Bellaire Boulevard (West Holcombe Boulevard after 1963). At the time, this was on the fringes of countryside and was meant to be the first phase of a much larger indoor shopping and entertainment complex called McCarthy Center, anchored alongside the planned Texas Medical Center. At the hotel's north side was a five-story building containing a 1,000-car garage and 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m<sup>2</sup>) exhibition hall. To the south was the hotel's lavishly landscaped garden designed by Ralph Ellis Gunn, a terrace and an immense swimming pool measuring 165 by 142 feet (43 m) described as the world's biggest outdoor pool, which accommodated exhibition waterskiing and featured a 3 story-high diving platform with an open spiral staircase. Construction was completed for about $21,000,000 (equivalent to over $200,000,000 in 2007).</p> <p>Politician and entrepreneur Jesse H. Jones privately warned McCarthy that business travelers would be reluctant to stay at a hotel three miles south from downtown Houston. Hotel industry executives flatly warned McCarthy the project would not be profitable. He publicly replied, "I went into the oil business in 1933 when everybody said I was a damn fool. Now they're saying it again about my hotel." </p> <p>The 5,000-square-foot (460 m<sup>2</sup>) lobby was paneled in burled mahogany with added trim heavily influenced by Art Deco, a design movement which had been popular during the 1920s and 30s. McCarthy ordered furnishings and decor in 63 shades of green, a nod to his ancestral Ireland. Hedrick's architectural firm had reportedly been the third-largest in the US, however his conservative design for the building's exterior along with its lavish interiors by Robert D. Harrell of Los Angeles drew wide criticism, notably from Frank Lloyd Wright who while being shown the completed facility before it opened, pointed at the lobby ceiling and said to Fay Jones, "That, young man, is an example of the effects of venereal disease on architecture." Wright also called the Shamrock "an imitation Rockefeller Center" (which had been completed ten years earlier). McCarthy claimed the decor represented "the best of all periods." Time magazine described it as "eclectic." The building's structural design has since been characterized as "more robust and sturdy than sleek and futuristic." </p> <h2><span id="Historic_grand_opening">Historic grand opening</span></h2><br><img title="Shamrock Hotel - Shamrock Hotel Hong Kong (China) - Reviews and Rates - TravelPod" alt="Shamrock Hotel - Shamrock Hotel Hong Kong (China) - Reviews and Rates - TravelPod" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://images.travelpod.com/cache/accom_maps/Shamrock-Hong_Kong.gif"><br> <p>The hotel opened with fireworks displays on St. Patrickâs Day 1949. Two thousand Houstonians paid $42 a person to have dinner at what was widely publicized as âHoustonâs biggest party" which cost an estimated one million dollars. The party was attended by over 150 Hollywood celebrities including Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Robert Preston and Errol Flynn along with noted Los Angeles business executives and reporters, some of whom were flown in to Houston International Airport on a customized Boeing 307 Stratoliner airplane which McCarthy had bought only days earlier from Howard Hughes. Many more were brought in by train on a chartered Santa Fe Super Chief. With a crowd estimated at 50,000 gathering outside the hotel, newspaper boys dressed in black tie handed out commemorative editions of the <i>Houston Post</i> as guests arrived that evening. The party became very overcrowded, with three thousand people milling in the hotel's public areas, a thousand more than had been foreseen. Houston mayor Oscar F. Holcombe and his wife sat in a hallway for two hours after his chair was stolen. "It was the worst mob scene I have ever witnessed," Holcombe said later. The festivities became so raucous that a radio broadcast from the hotel by actress, singer and World War II pinup girl Dorothy Lamour was cut off by the network; assuming he was off-air, NBC audio engineer Raoul Murphy uttered an expletive heard live nationwide and dead air greeted the audience for a very long twenty seconds. Due to the numerous broadcast difficulties, Lamour reportedly fled the stage in tears.</p> <p>The <i>Houston Chronicle'</i>s society editor wrote that the event was "bedlam in diamonds". <i>Life</i> called it "...the most dazzling exhibition of evening dresses and big names ever seen in Texas. Everyone had to concede it was quite a party and quite a hotel." The grand opening of the Shamrock is still cited as one of the biggest social events in Houstonâs history.</p> <h2><span id="Operation">Operation</span></h2><br><img title="Shamrock Hotel - HOUSTON'S SHAMROCK HOTEL â" Discover Texas History" alt="Shamrock Hotel - HOUSTON'S SHAMROCK HOTEL â" Discover Texas History" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.discovertexashistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/shamrock-hotel-emerald-room.jpg"><br> <p>The Shamrock initially had a staff of 1,200 managed by George Lindholm, who had been recruited from the socially prominent Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York. There were 23 different employee uniforms. Guests signed the register in "grass-hued" green ink and their luggage was carried by bellhops wearing emerald green, lemon trimmed uniforms past a portrait of McCarthy in the elevator lobby to air-conditioned, green-hued rooms each with generously framed abstract art on the walls, push-button radios (including recorded music from an elaborate in-house system through which an operator played extended-length phonographic records) and television, all somewhat rare amenities for a hotel at the time. Over a third of the rooms had kitchenettes. Celebrity singers (including Lamour) performed in the hotel's nightclub, called the Emerald room. From 1949 to 1953 the Shamrock hosted a network radio program called <i>Saturday at the Shamrock</i> carried by the American Broadcasting Company, then the only nationally broadcast scripted radio program produced outside New York or Los Angeles.</p> <p>However the Shamrock soon began experiencing persistent problems with occupancy rates and was seldom if ever full. McCarthy had spent lavishly, then borrowed heavily against his assets (including the hotel) to leverage a series of risky investments and his cash reserves quickly dwindled. Within a year Lindholm quietly resigned. In 1952 McCarthy defaulted on a loan and the hotel was acquired by Equitable Life Assurance Society. That same year author Edna Ferber described the Shamrock as the "Conquistador" in her novel <i>Giant</i> (and it was later briefly featured in the 1956 film adaptation directed by George Stevens). Despite financial troubles the resort-like Shamrock with its restaurants, bars and swank shops had become a popular gathering place for local society and was characterized as "Houston's Riviera" during the early 1950s. The Shamrock's private and sleek Cork Club was noted as the site of many oil deals (and reportedly, fist fights), along with performances by singer Frank Sinatra. In 1953 singer Patty Andrews of the Andrews Sisters launched her brief solo career in the hotel's still somewhat fashionable Emerald room nightclub.</p> <h3><span id="Shamrock_Hilton">Shamrock Hilton</span></h3> <p>In 1954 the Hilton Hotels Corporation assumed management of the hotel and bought the property at a discount from its construction costs in 1955 but also struggled to find a profitable model for the huge facility, later shown to be isolated from both downtown Houston and its growing system of freeways. Moreover the Shamrock was overwhelmed by competition from many much smaller, cheaper and automobile-friendly motels. A low two-story "lanai" wing in the form of a motel was added next to the swimming pool in 1957. Meanwhile affluent suburban home buyers bypassed the area and the planned shopping and entertainment center was never built (although McCarthy's concept influenced the successful Houston Galleria which opened near an intersection of freeways on the city's west side in 1970). Around 1965, a Trader Vic's restaurant (the first one which was established in Texas) was operated from the hotel property which was closed down in 1980. The hotel remained popular for Houston social events such as debutante balls, barbecues and business meetings, continuing operations as the Shamrock Hilton until 1986, by which time even its local reputation had long since faded.</p> <h2><span id="Demolition">Demolition</span></h2><br><img title="Shamrock Hotel - File:Donald Shamrock Hotel 001.JPG - Wikimedia Commons" alt="Shamrock Hotel - File:Donald Shamrock Hotel 001.JPG - Wikimedia Commons" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Donald_Shamrock_Hotel_001.JPG/1024px-Donald_Shamrock_Hotel_001.JPG"><br> <p>During a severe local recession in 1985 the 36-year-old hotel, still the second largest in Houston but by then in need of extensive refurbishing and refitting, was in effect donated to the Texas Medical Center. In March 1986 a protest rally was held by historic preservationists including McCarthy and the hotel opened its last annual St Patrick's Day party to the public. That evening, some people who had been at the opening night party in 1949 reportedly attended a semi-formal event in the hotel's Emerald room. A few employees had been with the hotel since its first year of operation. The building was demolished 1 June 1987 (McCarthy died 18 months later) and the land was paved over as a surface parking lot. The Institute of Biosciences and Technology, a component of the Texas A&M Health Science Center has since been built on the site and ironically, along with fountains and some landscaping on the northeast grounds, the hotel's multi-story parking garage was retained.</p> <h2><span id="Residents">Residents</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Maxine Mesinger and her family</li> </ul><h2><span id="Programs.2FMenus">Programs/Menus</span></h2><br><br> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"><li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> </ul><h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>History of Houston</li> <li>Architecture of Houston</li> </ul><p><br style="clear:both;"></p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <p>Burrough, Bryan. "The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes. Penguin Press, New York, 2009.</p> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, <i>Glenn McCarthyâs car at Shamrock Hotel</i> (photo)</li> <li>Shamrock Hotel, Houston Deco, 1940s</li> <li>Dozens of photographs taken at the working hotel in 1949</li> <li>Remembering the Shamrock</li> <li>Vintage postcard of the Shamrock Hotel</li> <li>The Shamrock Hotel Collection at the University of Houston Digital Library</li> </ul></h2><br><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-80496421921595826172015-05-18T17:30:00.001-07:002015-05-18T17:30:02.659-07:00Settles Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUFUnpDkjcz1-ulQB4D-sarqcF2zHbIwnn9K3rCGGPfbMUyV_Q2Ai8uuvunKez8FYEghpoB3XEpd24_22qPQ-cOz6fRhvb7TZbgH-oRpYbmd1RC91iYCluFwvx_NQKTS3qChIvoxjvp6s/s1600/18876649_BG1-702659.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUFUnpDkjcz1-ulQB4D-sarqcF2zHbIwnn9K3rCGGPfbMUyV_Q2Ai8uuvunKez8FYEghpoB3XEpd24_22qPQ-cOz6fRhvb7TZbgH-oRpYbmd1RC91iYCluFwvx_NQKTS3qChIvoxjvp6s/s320/18876649_BG1-702659.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6150373425700165570" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The <b>Settles Hotel</b> is an historic 15-story hotel located at 201 East Third Street in Big Spring, Texas. Originally completed in 1930, the Settles opened for business October 1, 1930, and was occupied until the early 1980s. It has stood abandoned since that time.</p> <p>The building was purchased by the Settles Hotel Development Corporation in late 2006. Since that time, the SHDC has also acquired adjoining properties, including the Big Spring Boys and Girls Club and the abandoned Greyhound Bus terminal, which was then demolished.</p> <p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 2013. Hotel Settles is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Restoration">Restoration</span></h2><br><img title="Settles Hotel - View from the west, Settles Hotel, Big Spring | Image 543374 ..." alt="Settles Hotel - View from the west, Settles Hotel, Big Spring | Image 543374 ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.emporis.com/images/show/543374-Large.jpg"><br> <p>According to the SHDC website, the corporation is "committed to the preservation of this remarkable building. We believe the Settles is a treasure in and of itself. We are working from the original set of blueprints and have begun an extensive process to bring back the beautiful details that evoke the craftsmanship and architectural details of a bygone era."</p> <p>The corporation plans to update the hotel with such conveniences as heating, air conditioning, modern plumbing, and elevator.</p> <p>The new owners are planning a mixed-use residential and commercial property, with retail space available on the first and second floors. A fitness center, restaurant, and conference center are being considered. The first floor lobby and ballroom will be reconstructed along the original 1930s plans. On December 17, 2009, the Settles lit up in Christmas colors for the first time in more than three decades. The corporation has planned the opening in September 2012.</p> <h2><span id="Reopening">Reopening</span></h2><br><img title="Settles Hotel - Up With the Old Hotel | Texas Monthly" alt="Settles Hotel - Up With the Old Hotel | Texas Monthly" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.texasmonthly.com/sites/default/files/images/promoted/%255Bnode%253Anid%255D/0313_settles_stairway_1020x574.jpg"><br> <p>The Hotel Settles re-opened its doors to the public on December 28, 2012. Construction on other parts of the Hotel are expected to continue through spring of 2013.</p> <p>On April 10, 2015, the West Texas Historical Association at its 92nd annual conference in Amarillo, presented a lecture and discussion on the Hotel Settles: "A Grand Dame Shines Again: Big Spring's Hotel Settles During Eighty-five Years of Boom, Bust, and Boom" by Barbara Brannon.</p> <p><br></p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Settles Hotel - Recent Listing: Settles Hotel, Big Spring | Texas Historical ..." alt="Settles Hotel - Recent Listing: Settles Hotel, Big Spring | Texas Historical ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.thc.state.tx.us/public/upload/preserve/national_register/images/Settles%2520Hotel%2520at%2520Dusk%25202013.jpg"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Settles Hotel - Hotel Settles to Soon Light Up the Skies in Big Spring - KWES ..." alt="Settles Hotel - Hotel Settles to Soon Light Up the Skies in Big Spring - KWES ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://kwes.images.worldnow.com/images/20449755_BG1.jpg"><br> <ul><li>Hotel Settles website</li> <li>Photos of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico</li> </ul><p><br style="clear:both;"></p></h2><br><img title="Settles Hotel - Settles Hotel Opening Delayed - KWES NewsWest 9 / Midland, Odessa ..." alt="Settles Hotel - Settles Hotel Opening Delayed - KWES NewsWest 9 / Midland, Odessa ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://kwes.images.worldnow.com/images/19465879_BG1.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-69123855048934296492015-05-18T13:30:00.001-07:002015-05-18T13:30:02.247-07:00Seralago Hotel & Suites<a name='more'></a><p>The <i><b>Seralago Hotel & Suites</b></i> is a family resort located in Kissimmee, Florida, U.S.A.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Summary">Summary</span></h2><br><br> <p>This resort is located within 3 miles or 4.8 kilometres of the Walt Disney World Resort and is near <i>Old Town</i>, which provides shopping and entertainment for the tourists. Each room features a refrigerator, a microwave oven unit, free television service with cable channels, and the ability to use high-speed Internet for free through their Wi-Fi service.</p> <p>There are two Olympic-size swimming pools, free movies at their on-site movie theater, a shopping mall-style food court, and a dungeon-themed video arcade. Free shuttles are provided to and from the following theme parks: Walt Disney World and Universal Studios.</p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><br> <p>This hotel opened on March 1973 with a modest 228 rooms located on four detached buildings. For the first 32 years of its existence, this hotel was a franchise hotel of Holiday Inn.</p> <p>One of the original owners of the hotel was Henri Landwirth, founder of the <i>Give Kids The World Village</i>, a nonprofit resort where terminally ill children would enjoy a week-long vacation with their families for no charge. Another owner of this hotel was legendary astronaut John Glenn, the first to circle the Earth as a part of the Project Mercury rocket program. He would go on to serve in the United States Senate and to return to an outer space mission at the age of 77. Massive expansions of the resort took place in 1975, 1979, and 1989 with the opening of 445 additional rooms. This hotel was the original pioneer to the concept of "kids' suites;" where the kids have their gaming consoles and their own private area for relaxation. Each kid suites can accommodate up to five people (two parents/adult guardians and three children). Child-friendly themes along with the latest mainstream video games (for the Microsoft Xbox) are implemented in every child-oriented area of the suite.</p> <p>On January 1, 2005, the employees jointly took over ownership of the hotel from the Holiday Inn corporation and became an independent hotel. The current owner of the resort property is Seralago Investments LLC.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Seralago Hotel & Suites</li> </ul></h2><br><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-73797669287594780282015-05-18T09:30:00.001-07:002015-05-18T09:30:05.220-07:00Sentinel Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0o3B2jSe-IwnyqbGE14crNq0UYZYkS1e8qWzc7pHSxBBXj_F2iFBA4AcMee6nSVFX6ruIMad6ZBYQlhyUHD7jFPzIWK4ruzJYafKtCQ8pQcyyLrLN8fALf9f0dQRF2XiURRMjPYz3L1Y/s1600/governor-hotel_54_990x660_201406012221-705221.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0o3B2jSe-IwnyqbGE14crNq0UYZYkS1e8qWzc7pHSxBBXj_F2iFBA4AcMee6nSVFX6ruIMad6ZBYQlhyUHD7jFPzIWK4ruzJYafKtCQ8pQcyyLrLN8fALf9f0dQRF2XiURRMjPYz3L1Y/s320/governor-hotel_54_990x660_201406012221-705221.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6150249746134866674" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The <b>Sentinel Hotel</b> is a hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. It is composed of two buildings, both of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The east building was completed in 1909 and was originally the Seward Hotel, while the west building was completed in 1923 as the Elks Temple. The Seward Hotel was renamed the <b>Governor Hotel</b> in 1931. The two buildings were joined in 1992, and together they became an expanded Governor Hotel. In 2004, the hotel's entrance was moved to the west building, the former Elks Temple.</p> <p>In the early 1990s, the hotel served as the filming location for several films: Portlander Gus Van Sant filmed a scene of <i>My Own Private Idaho</i> and Madonna filmed several scenes of <i>Body of Evidence</i> inside.</p> <p>In 2003, the hotel was sold to Grand Heritage Hotel Group, who announced plans to close the lobby in the east building and make the west building's lobby, on 11th Avenue, the main entrance. At that time, the hotel had 100 rooms and suites, and 13 meeting rooms. The former 10th Avenue lobby area would be used for an expansion of Jake's Grill restaurant.</p> <p>The Governor Hotel was sold again in 2012, to Portland-based Provenance Hotels. The company invested $6 million in renovations, and renamed the hotel the Sentinel Hotel on March 14, 2014. The name is a reference to the robot-like stone sentinel sculptures along the roofline of the east building (the former Seward Hotel). Many conferences, civic events, and banquets are hosted in the hotel. The City Club of Portland has been hosting its weekly Friday Forums there since 2004.</p> <h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><img title="Sentinel Hotel - Sentinel, a Provenance Hotel (Best Price Guaranteed) | Expedia" alt="Sentinel Hotel - Sentinel, a Provenance Hotel (Best Price Guaranteed) | Expedia" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://images.trvl-media.com/hotels/1000000/10000/1900/1854/1854_67_z.jpg"><br> <ul><li>Architecture in Portland, Oregon</li> <li>Governor Hotel (Portland, Oregon) (disambiguation)</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Sentinel Hotel - Bravo! Wedding - Jake's Catering at The Sentinel Hotel" alt="Sentinel Hotel - Bravo! Wedding - Jake's Catering at The Sentinel Hotel" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.bravowedding.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Jakes-Wedding-Pictures-022.jpg"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Sentinel Hotel - Sentinel, a Provenance Hotel (Best Price Guaranteed) | Expedia" alt="Sentinel Hotel - Sentinel, a Provenance Hotel (Best Price Guaranteed) | Expedia" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://images.trvl-media.com/hotels/1000000/10000/1900/1854/1854_63_z.jpg"><br> <ul><li>Sentinel Hotel website</li> </ul></h2><br><img title="Sentinel Hotel - Sentinel Hotel (formerly Governor) - Condé Nast Traveler" alt="Sentinel Hotel - Sentinel Hotel (formerly Governor) - Condé Nast Traveler" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://photos.cntraveler.com/2014/10/17/5441760a69d5bb9d1d7e6c78_sentinel-hotel-portland-oregon-rca-2014-1.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-72966017214194897192015-05-18T01:30:00.001-07:002015-05-18T01:30:03.194-07:00Seminole Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbtWfAjaKc-oHVc-EJlivtLlJ9aWa-T80avJeeljpjy0aLSWDIRddHZsPEDeGomNR3DabNFHxNuMHGSI2x_BNU6JxtzraxDBFr0U3eCuGHNIKWO8O8izIQimicEmatfHSgNzHB5IFlNU0/s1600/best-western-plus-seminole-703195.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbtWfAjaKc-oHVc-EJlivtLlJ9aWa-T80avJeeljpjy0aLSWDIRddHZsPEDeGomNR3DabNFHxNuMHGSI2x_BNU6JxtzraxDBFr0U3eCuGHNIKWO8O8izIQimicEmatfHSgNzHB5IFlNU0/s320/best-western-plus-seminole-703195.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6150126038488945410" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The <b>Seminole Hotel</b> opened on January 1, 1886 in Winter Park, Florida. The hotel, which had 250 guest rooms, was situated on a site bounded by Osceola Avenue and Lake Osceola and sat at the eastern end of New England Avenue . Many people referred to it as <i>the</i> grand resort of Florida. At that time, wagons, carriages and bicycles were the only modes of local transportation. However, guests of the Seminole Hotel were brought to the hotel from the South Florida Railroad train depot via a horse car that traveled on rails. Many of these passengers came to Winter Park in the winter months to escape the snow and frigid temperatures of the North. In its early years, the hotel was able to attract many wealthy northerners using luxuries such as gaslights and steam heating. The hotel featured a 42 x 100 foot beautiful formal dining room, many parlors, suites with open fireplaces, a barbershop, laundry services, and a 567 foot long colonnaded porch. Guests could take the elevator to view the surrounding area from the promenade on the top of the hotel. For the guests entertainment, the hotel provided a bowling alley, a billiard hall, tennis and croquet grounds, and an orchestra for dancing. Other activities including horseback riding, fishing, and sailing on Lake Osceola in sailboats and steam yachts provided by the hotel.</p> <p>Along with neighboring Rollins College, the hotel and college brought luxury to the edge of the Florida frontier. The collegeâs opening offered many job opportunities around the Orlando area. For African-Americans living on the west side of Winter Park, this was crucial. Many young African-Americans were able to find jobs at the Seminole Hotel and earn decent wages.</p> <p>On February 24, 1888, President Grover Cleveland visited the Seminole Hotel, along with several senators and prominent citizens from the nation's capital.</p> <p>The original Seminole Hotel burned to the ground in September, 1902. In 1912, a second, smaller Seminole Hotel was built. The new hotel was located on East Webster Avenue and sat on the banks of Lake Osceola. This hotel was torn down in 1970.</p> <h2><span id="Job_opportunities_for_the_African-American_community">Job opportunities for the African-American community</span></h2><br><img title="Seminole Hotel - Best Western Plus Seminole Hotel & Suites , Seminole" alt="Seminole Hotel - Best Western Plus Seminole Hotel & Suites , Seminole" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://d.otcdn.com/imglib/hotelfotos/8/296/best-western-plus-seminole-hotel-suites-012.jpg"><br> <p>The Seminole offered African-Americans many such service jobs. Women could find work at the hotel as maids or cooks, while African-American men were hired as bellhops or baggage carriers.</p> <p>Many of the employees of the Seminole Hotel who lived in Winter Park year-round acquired other jobs through their connections at the hotel. The majority of the hotelâs business came during the winter months, leaving most employees free to seek other jobs during the summer months. Through their association with affluent white hotel guests, local African-Americans procured off-season jobs maintaining gardens and orange crops for the wealthy people who returned north for the summer, leaving their Florida properties in need of maintenance. This was highly beneficial for the African-American families in Winter Park, because with the right connections this guaranteed work all year round.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Seminole Hotel - Florida Memory - Fellows assembled for group portrait in the ..." alt="Seminole Hotel - Florida Memory - Fellows assembled for group portrait in the ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="https://floridamemory.com/fpc/reference/rc11982.jpg"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Seminole Hotel - BEST WESTERN PLUS Seminole Hotel & Suites Seminole United States" alt="Seminole Hotel - BEST WESTERN PLUS Seminole Hotel & Suites Seminole United States" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://mediabw.technicalpreview.net/props/44693/44693_001_Lobby.jpg"><br> <ul><li><i>Winter Park History and Archives Collection</i> Winter Park History. Winter Park Public Library.</li> <li><i>Places</i> Winter Park Historic Association. Kane Orlando, Inc.</li> </ul><p></p></h2><br><img title="Seminole Hotel - BEST WESTERN PLUS Seminole Hotel & Suites Seminole United States" alt="Seminole Hotel - BEST WESTERN PLUS Seminole Hotel & Suites Seminole United States" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://mediabw.technicalpreview.net/props/44693/44693_007_Propertyamenity.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-68552130603169802442015-05-17T17:30:00.001-07:002015-05-17T17:30:02.401-07:00Seattle Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYbPgjdNa3JR_ObMc6YWVgCisNAceJP8VZGLmyxLA1pf6qCDS3uBuayVUwQigZbajbP-1YOoROXy-GIkYAW_YkJLTsoPNVRkTqRtVzcf1Mx50Ojj1mtaSlMDijPFLv5yf5asfDq7qzvSQ/s1600/The_Sheraton_Seattle_Hotel_And_Towers-Seattle-702401.gif"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYbPgjdNa3JR_ObMc6YWVgCisNAceJP8VZGLmyxLA1pf6qCDS3uBuayVUwQigZbajbP-1YOoROXy-GIkYAW_YkJLTsoPNVRkTqRtVzcf1Mx50Ojj1mtaSlMDijPFLv5yf5asfDq7qzvSQ/s320/The_Sheraton_Seattle_Hotel_And_Towers-Seattle-702401.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6150002339224780514" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The <b>Seattle Hotel</b> (also known as <b>Hotel Seattle</b>) was the third of three hotels located in Pioneer Square in a triangular block bound by James Street to the north, Yesler Way to the south, and 2nd Avenue to the east, and just steps away from the Pioneer Building. It was built in 1890 from the ashes of the Great Seattle Fire and served as a hotel until early in the 20th Century. By the time neighboring Smith Tower was completed in 1914, the Seattle Hotel had become an office building.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Precursor:_The_Occidental_Hotel.2C_I_and_II_.281861.E2.80.931889.29">Precursor: The Occidental Hotel, I and II (1861â"1889)</span></h2><br><img title="Seattle Hotel - Top 10 Hotels with a View - Space Needle News" alt="Seattle Hotel - Top 10 Hotels with a View - Space Needle News" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.spaceneedle.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/seattle-hotel-home1-top.jpg"><br> <p>Before the Seattle Hotel rose in 1890, there was the Occidental Hotel. The first Occidental, which opened in 1861, was a wooden building. Twenty years later, on September 26, 1881, it held a memorial service for President James Garfield, who had died five days earlier from injuries sustained when he was shot in July.</p> <p>In 1883, the wooden structure was torn down and John Collins built a bigger, grander one in the same location. It lasted just four years, before burning down in the Great Seattle Fire on June 6, 1889. The second Occidental Hotel, like the Seattle Hotel, was also triangular-shaped.</p> <h2><span id="Description">Description</span></h2><br><img title="Seattle Hotel - Seattle Hotel Brighton (East Sussex) - Reviews and Rates - TravelPod" alt="Seattle Hotel - Seattle Hotel Brighton (East Sussex) - Reviews and Rates - TravelPod" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://images.travelpod.com/cache/accom_maps/Alias_Seattle_Hotel-Brighton.gif"><br> <p>The Seattle Hotel was a triangular-shaped building (much like the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, New York), with its narrow face located at the junction of James and Yesler. It stood five stories high and for much of its existence bore the inscription "1890" above the fifth-story window, signifying the year it was completed.</p> <h2><span id="Significance_of_its_Demolition">Significance of its Demolition</span></h2><br><img title="Seattle Hotel - Book Warwick Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington - Hotels.com" alt="Seattle Hotel - Book Warwick Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington - Hotels.com" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://exp.cdn-hotels.com/hotels/1000000/10000/6900/6839/6839_76_z.jpg"><br> <p>Abandoned by 1961, the Seattle Hotel was torn down and replaced with a parking garage, derisively called the "Sinking Ship" as part of the initial stages of an urban-renewal plan that would level all the old buildings in the district. That was as far as the plan went. The old hotel's demise kicked off a preservation movement spearheaded by the likes of Alan Black, Victor Steinbrueck and historian/author Bill Speidel which led to a revival of the Pioneer Square district. By 1970, with its buildings refurbished, a historic district area including the Square was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There is now another hotel in downtown Seattle call Hotel Seattle at 315 Seneca St, Seattle, WA, #(206) 623-5111.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Seattle Hotel - Sheraton Seattle Hotel (Best Price Guaranteed) | Expedia" alt="Seattle Hotel - Sheraton Seattle Hotel (Best Price Guaranteed) | Expedia" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://images.trvl-media.com/hotels/1000000/30000/25300/25290/25290_88_z.jpg"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Seattle Hotel - Book W Seattle, Seattle, Washington - Hotels.com" alt="Seattle Hotel - Book W Seattle, Seattle, Washington - Hotels.com" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://exp.cdn-hotels.com/hotels/1000000/290000/284400/284304/284304_50_z.jpg"><br> <ul><li>HistoryLink Essay - Occidental Hotel: The Rise, Fall, Rise, and Fall of Pioneer Square's Historic Hotel</li> <li>HistoryLink Essay - Now & Then -- Seattle Hotel vs. the Sinking Ship</li> <li>Historic Seattle: History of Historic Preservation In Seattle</li> <li>WhiteHouse.gov: Biography of James Garfield</li> <li>Glass Steel and Stone: Flatiron Building</li> </ul><p><span></span></p></h2><br><img title="Seattle Hotel - Seattle Hotels: Find Seattle Hotel Deals & Reviews on Orbitz" alt="Seattle Hotel - Seattle Hotels: Find Seattle Hotel Deals & Reviews on Orbitz" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.tnetnoc.com/public/ANS/Dynaflex/Images/Background/ORB_CityImage_960x700.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-35244748397722671262015-05-17T13:30:00.001-07:002015-05-17T13:30:04.210-07:00Seaport Hotel And Seaport World Trade Center<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivZy36UYZk379zrhJFPiBvXFPX0jagG55OpEWo54zle7ByJR_t8Xn5YoE4x3oBEZR25T3kX1O3qrMlPXNjeK1zfFt9WZEUCQYbE7dMdzfg4Ohbe37OpVrwSVK7wydtcKRmqam_fCk5MUQ/s1600/boston-seaport-hotel-25-704211.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivZy36UYZk379zrhJFPiBvXFPX0jagG55OpEWo54zle7ByJR_t8Xn5YoE4x3oBEZR25T3kX1O3qrMlPXNjeK1zfFt9WZEUCQYbE7dMdzfg4Ohbe37OpVrwSVK7wydtcKRmqam_fCk5MUQ/s320/boston-seaport-hotel-25-704211.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6149940501200835170" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The <b>Seaport Boston Hotel</b> and the neighboring <b>Seaport World Trade Center</b> is located on the Boston waterfront at 1 Seaport Lane, Boston, MA 02210 on Commonwealth Pier, in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The South Boston Waterfront is also known unofficially at the Boston Seaport District.</p> <p>Constructed in 1901 as a maritime cargo handling facility, Commonwealth Pier was the largest pier building in the world at the time. Able to accommodate the largest vessels that entered the port of Boston, this facility was an integral part of city's maritime industry, handling both freight and passenger traffic, with rail and truck transportation access right on the pier. Commonwealth Pier subsequently underwent two major renovations and continued to host ships through the 1970s, when changes in cargo transport made the Pier obsolete. In the early 1980s, the Massachusetts Port Authority designated Fidelity Investments and The Drew Company as developers of Commonwealth Pier, which they transformed into the World Trade Center Boston in 1986.</p> <p>The Seaport Boston Hotel opened in 1998. Renovations were completed in 2009 by the New York architects BBG-BBGM. The hotel contains Hypoallergenic rooms, and <i>Forbes Traveler</i> named Seaport one of "America's Greenest Hotels" in 2008. The hotel is also a member of the Green Hotels Association, which promotes environmentally safe products to be used in green hotels. The hotel includes:</p> <ul><li>428 Guest Rooms</li> <li>41 Meeting Rooms</li> <li>44,600 sq. ft. Largest Meeting Room</li> <li>180,000 sq. ft. Total Meeting Space</li> <li>394 seat Amphitheater</li> <li>120, 000 sq. ft. Exhibition Center</li> </ul><p>The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection awarded Seaport with the 2008 Waste Wise/Innovation Award. Seaport awarded the Boston Green Business award in 2008 for the Bike Friendly Business program. Seaport received the Boston Green Business Award from the City of Boston In 2007, Seaport Hotel received the Good Earthkeeping Award by the Massachusetts Lodging Association.</p> <p>Notable stays and visits include:</p> <ul><li>President Barack Obama</li> <li>President Bill Clinton</li> <li>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton</li> <li>President George H. W. Bush</li> <li>President George W. Bush</li> <li>Governor Mitt Romney</li> <li>Chinese Premier</li> <li>Deval Patrick</li> <li>The facility also hosted half of MacWorld Boston along with the Bayside Expo Center.</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Seaport Hotel And Seaport World Trade Center - Seaport Hotel and Seaport World Trade Center to Fenway Park by tram" alt="Seaport Hotel And Seaport World Trade Center - Seaport Hotel and Seaport World Trade Center to Fenway Park by tram" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.rome2rio.com/i/Seaport-Hotel-and-Seaport-World-Trade-Center/Fenway-Park"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Seaport Hotel And Seaport World Trade Center - Seaport Hotel Boston Wedding of Lisa and Mike" alt="Seaport Hotel And Seaport World Trade Center - Seaport Hotel Boston Wedding of Lisa and Mike" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.personkillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Seaport-Hotel-Boston-Winter-Wedding-001.jpg"><br> <ul><li>Official Website</li> <li>Massport</li> <li>Boston Green Tourism</li> </ul><p><span></span></p></h2><br><img title="Seaport Hotel And Seaport World Trade Center - Seaport Hotel Boston Wedding of Lisa and Mike" alt="Seaport Hotel And Seaport World Trade Center - Seaport Hotel Boston Wedding of Lisa and Mike" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.personkillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Seaport-Hotel-Boston-Winter-Wedding-002.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-85034270654118051072015-05-17T09:30:00.001-07:002015-05-17T09:30:03.598-07:00Schauder Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR22izHrs3ZC_xfJuwI8gxvQgrMLLeC3Ys-UFQwABGEYr-mEgo2S8KhyphenhyphentjbZbEJbKnwR2rvwglUo3uP4RwDNoGV2PWTgXqu3OVrlQgksuO8tHUSI42VE_1sL7qkzIhqIHDYz8uF8pwzws/s1600/975px-Finley_Guy_Building-703598.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR22izHrs3ZC_xfJuwI8gxvQgrMLLeC3Ys-UFQwABGEYr-mEgo2S8KhyphenhyphentjbZbEJbKnwR2rvwglUo3uP4RwDNoGV2PWTgXqu3OVrlQgksuO8tHUSI42VE_1sL7qkzIhqIHDYz8uF8pwzws/s320/975px-Finley_Guy_Building-703598.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6149878651382999074" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The <b>Schauder Hotel</b> was an historic building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was built in the Italianate style facing the Mississippi River, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img title="Schauder Hotel - List of hotels in the United States - Wikiwand" alt="Schauder Hotel - List of hotels in the United States - Wikiwand" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Hotel_Russell_Erskine_Dec2009_02.jpg/640px-Hotel_Russell_Erskine_Dec2009_02.jpg"><br> <p>Louis Schauder built the hotel in 1876. At the time it was one of five hotels in a two block section of West Front Street (now West River Drive). Schauder was also operated the neighboring Perry Hotel. A saloon and music hall operated in the hotel by the 1880s. The hotel continued in operation until the turn of the 20th-century. It, along with the neighboring Clifton-Metropolitan Hotel, the J.H.C. Petersen's Sons Wholesale Building and the Schick's Express and Transfer Co., were torn down to make way for a public parking structure. It was delisted from the National Register in 2014.</p> <h2><span id="Architecture">Architecture</span></h2><br><img title="Schauder Hotel - File:Petersens Sons Davenport IA 1892.jpg - Wikimedia Commons" alt="Schauder Hotel - File:Petersens Sons Davenport IA 1892.jpg - Wikimedia Commons" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Petersens_Sons_Davenport_IA_1892.jpg/800px-Petersens_Sons_Davenport_IA_1892.jpg"><br> <p>The three-story commercial building featured a four-bay facade above the ground floor. The tall, narrow windows with the decorative window hoods on the second and third floors expressed the Italianate style. The ground floor had been updated in later years and the original cornice was either partially removed or replaced.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Schauder Hotel - Wahkonsa Hotel - EnglishClass.jp" alt="Schauder Hotel - Wahkonsa Hotel - EnglishClass.jp" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2892/12460785455_5ce1f96eca_b.jpg"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Schauder Hotel - Davenport Water Co. Pumping Station No. 2 - EnglishClass." alt="Schauder Hotel - Davenport Water Co. Pumping Station No. 2 - EnglishClass." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://ch2mhillblogs.com/water/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/UtePumpStation.jpg"><br> <ul><li>Photo of the building</li> <li>Archiplanet Listing</li> </ul></h2><br><img title="Schauder Hotel - National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown ..." alt="Schauder Hotel - National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/73/Iowa_reform_bldg_davenport_iowa.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-17143702535658382992015-05-17T05:30:00.001-07:002015-05-17T05:30:02.819-07:00Saxony Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtYGAUo5ESC4dVEmdqjUX7ir-G7PZ2fSAkS1YvqNuObHopikjZ-M2C4O0n8g9KKvwdTlqo0oIhmrfefYBhs90Uh-Cz3gCFfxk0_YYGFpc_8xlB2iuHC-GqG8P66bw5gQTU9-CWDmD_F8/s1600/3%2525252BSaxony%2525252BHotel.%2525252B3201%2525252BCollins%2525252BAvenue.%2525252BRoy%2525252BFrance.%2525252B1948-702820.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtYGAUo5ESC4dVEmdqjUX7ir-G7PZ2fSAkS1YvqNuObHopikjZ-M2C4O0n8g9KKvwdTlqo0oIhmrfefYBhs90Uh-Cz3gCFfxk0_YYGFpc_8xlB2iuHC-GqG8P66bw5gQTU9-CWDmD_F8/s320/3%2525252BSaxony%2525252BHotel.%2525252B3201%2525252BCollins%2525252BAvenue.%2525252BRoy%2525252BFrance.%2525252B1948-702820.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6149816807797021074" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p><span></span> The <b>Saxony Hotel</b> is a hotel at 3201 Collins Avenue Miami Beach. It was built and owned by George D. Sax. Designed by architect Roy F. France, it was completed in 1948 as one of the first luxury resorts on Miami Beach. Following the success of the Saxony, other hotels emerged on the opulent beach front.</p> <p>Currently it is owned by The Faena Group which is extensively renovating to be part of the New Saxony Hotel & Residences.</p> <p>George Sax was perhaps best known as the president and chairman of Chicago's Exchange International Corporation and Exchange National Bank. He was also president of Sax Enterprises, Inc. Today, Sax is recognized for his contributions to the banking industry, being credited with the innovation of drive-through banking and instant loans.</p> <p>The Saxony was famous for its luxurious rooms, complimentary meals, restaurants and exceptional views of South Beach. It was the first air-conditioned hotel on Miami Beach, and was considered the most expensive and lavish resort of the time. When the hotel first opened, each room was estimated to have cost approximately $21,000, which at the time was thought to be the largest sum of money ever paid for such a project. The rooms featured decks that could accommodate large groups. It was nicknamed the "Ivory Tower" after the nightclub on its top floor.</p> <p>Features of the hotel included decks that could accommodate large groups, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a 600-foot private beach, and two all-weather tennis courts.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Saxony Hotel - Florida Memory - Saxony Hotel in Miami Beach." alt="Saxony Hotel - Florida Memory - Saxony Hotel in Miami Beach." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="https://floridamemory.com/fpc/postcard/PC12069.jpg"><br> <ul><li>The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans: George D. Sax - biography from the association</li> </ul></h2><br><img title="Saxony Hotel - Miami Beach Penthouse to List for a Record $55 Million - WSJ" alt="Saxony Hotel - Miami Beach Penthouse to List for a Record $55 Million - WSJ" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/MN-AH682_PRIVPR_J_20141120113958.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-17665035554340758512015-05-17T01:30:00.001-07:002015-05-17T01:30:05.638-07:00Savery Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTD7YpjzFnM9XmdjU5kI62L-dA3xyeCZr0nNn34grCEGxOkYvvhEPzOc_RhlJltkgZ2X5EmonhTfgryjlX2WZlKp9ACZNegO7Ss0W8o2ndJYTELFCDW0sfNEJEEHqGlUs7hsAHuPl8G_w/s1600/IMG_0248-705638.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTD7YpjzFnM9XmdjU5kI62L-dA3xyeCZr0nNn34grCEGxOkYvvhEPzOc_RhlJltkgZ2X5EmonhTfgryjlX2WZlKp9ACZNegO7Ss0W8o2ndJYTELFCDW0sfNEJEEHqGlUs7hsAHuPl8G_w/s320/IMG_0248-705638.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6149754967236752786" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The <b>Savery Hotel</b>, now known as the <b>Renaissance Des Moines Savery Hotel</b>, is an historic building located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, United States. The hotel is an eleven-story building that rises 140 feet (43 m) above the ground. H.L. Stevens & Co. designed the 233-room hotel in the Colonial Revival style. Opened in 1919, the building was extensively renovated in 1999. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. In the Jane Smiley novel A Thousand Acres, Ginny and Ty spend their wedding night at the Savery Hotel.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Savery Hotel - Renaissance Savery Hotel Des Moines (Iowa) - Reviews and Rates ..." alt="Savery Hotel - Renaissance Savery Hotel Des Moines (Iowa) - Reviews and Rates ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://images.travelpod.com/cache/accom_maps/Renaissance_Des_Moines_Savery_Hotel-Des_Moines.gif"><br> <p><br></p></h2><br><img title="Savery Hotel - Photos for Renaissance Des Moines Savery Hotel | Yelp" alt="Savery Hotel - Photos for Renaissance Des Moines Savery Hotel | Yelp" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/g501KhKOnIBr35_xS0O2KQ/o.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-22526499165470488072015-05-16T21:30:00.001-07:002015-05-16T21:30:04.049-07:00Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa)<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEdsX33VyoNgpWisAa35KBLKFXuglCzlrUqpM98xL0ioTutshkTRexRA7HLhRu-71CRNyyY_fdyfuAcU5fxTeeLNfzY6VvGE001zsLryMePJA9dBUYEt7QAPjbPJkHZlYk89idtoyUXmw/s1600/Villa-Balsamo-704050.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEdsX33VyoNgpWisAa35KBLKFXuglCzlrUqpM98xL0ioTutshkTRexRA7HLhRu-71CRNyyY_fdyfuAcU5fxTeeLNfzY6VvGE001zsLryMePJA9dBUYEt7QAPjbPJkHZlYk89idtoyUXmw/s320/Villa-Balsamo-704050.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6149693109710031042" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The <b>Sans Souci Hotel</b> was a hotel located in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1803 and torn down in 1887.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Early_history">Early history</span></h2><br><img title="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - 600px-Downtown_Saratoga_ ..." alt="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - 600px-Downtown_Saratoga_ ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Downtown_Saratoga_Springs.jpg/600px-Downtown_Saratoga_Springs.jpg"><br> <p>The Sans Souci Hotel was erected by Nicholas Low in 1803. It was designed by Joseph Newton, an architect from New York City. Low was a major property owner in Ballston Spa and had many commercial interests; the Sans Souci was only one of Lowâs enterprises during the day. He hired Andrew Berger to run the hotel when it was completed in 1804. Low paid Berger $500 for the first year and $1,000 for the second year.</p> <p>Ballston Spa, like its neighboring town of Saratoga Springs, contained many mineral springs located throughout the town. Tourists came from early in the 18th century to enjoy the mineral waters. Low sought to capitalize on the tourist trade and opened the Sans Souci hotel as a destination resort. The building of the hotel was overseen by carpenter James Hawkins.</p> <p>The hotel was 156 feet long with a wing extending back from each end at 150 feet, all of them three stories high and contained lodging for 250 people. This was an enormous structure during its day, rivaled only by Putnamâs Tavern and Boarding House (later the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs). The Sans Souci and the Grand Union Hotel had similar architectural styles in their beginnings, with plain white clapboard siding and dark shutters (âvenetian blindsâ) with a âverdigriseâ (green) pigment. Both hotels were laid out in a âUâ shape with an inner courtyard. The Sans Souci building and grounds occupied the entire block bounded by Front Street, Milton Avenue, Washington Street, and Spring Street. The Sans Souciâs large piazza was built at the same time as the hotel.</p> <p>The first floor of the hotel had several parlors and a 70 x 30 ft ballroom. On the first floor of one wing were located several private parlors, and on the first floor of the other wing was the expansive dining room. A âtempleâ was added to the end of the east wing, which was two stories tall. The cost of the addition was $250. Low then wanted to add a similar addition to the end of the other wing of the hotel for a billiards room. Low rented the billiards tables out at $10 per day and backgammon at $6 per day. Balls were held in the front hall, which was hung with elegant chandeliers and where live music was played.</p> <p>Cost in the first year for a stay at the Sans Souci was about $8 per day; poorer lodging in the Ballston Spa area could be found for $4 per week.</p> <p>Eventually the hotel was expanded so that it had 162 feet of frontage, the two wings 152 feet deep. The hotel then had 180 rooms and accommodated 300 guests. A white picket fence wrapped around the property, bordering the sidewalks.</p> <p>The hotel included many outbuildings, including a stable, wash house, managerâs home, small four-season hotel, bath house, billiards room, and a three-story outhouse that dumped waste into Gordon Creek.</p> <p>Guests to the Sans Souci included the most elite members of politics and economy during the 19th century. These included Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren, General John E. Wool, James Fenimore Cooper, Franklin Pierce, Commodore Isaac Hull, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Commodore Thomas Macdonough, Andrew Jackson, Stephen Douglas, William Seward, William L. Marcy, Edward Everett, Silas Wright, and Washington Irving. Joseph Bonaparte the ex-king of Spain stayed there in 1821.</p> <p>The Sans Souci operated only in the summertime because of the expense of heating it during the off-season.</p> <p>A travel journal from guests Mr. Elkanah Watson and Mr. Bayard in 1805 describe the hotel as such: âWe seated ourselves at a sumptuous table, with about a hundred guests of all classes, but generally, from their appearance and deportment, of first respectability, assembled here from every part of the Union and from Europe, in the pursuit of health and pleasure, or matrimony or vice. This is the most splendid watering place in America and is scarcely surpassed in Europe in its dimensions, and the taste and elegance of its arrangement. The building contains about one hundred apartment, all respectability furnished. The plan upon which it is constructed, the architecture, the style of the outbuildings and the gravel walks girted with shrubberyâ"are all on a magnificent scaleâ¦In the evening, we attended a ball in the spacious hall, brilliantly illuminated with chandeliers, and adorned with various other appliances of elegance and luxury. Here was congregated a fine exhibition of refinement of the âbeau mondeâ¦â Instead of the old-fashioned country dances and four-hand reels of revolutionary days, I was pleased to notice the advance of refined customs, and the introduction of the graces of Parisâ¦There was a large display of servants, handsomely attired, while the music of a choice band enlivened the occasion.â</p> <h2><span id="Decline_of_the_hotel">Decline of the hotel</span></h2><br><img title="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - Civil Rights | The New York History Blog" alt="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - Civil Rights | The New York History Blog" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Gay-Pride-Rockland-County.jpg"><br> <p>There are several reasons cited for the decline of the Sans Souci hotel. The first was the business sense of the owner, Nicholas Low. A New York City native, Nicholas Low sought to import goods from merchants that he knew in New York City and servants from New York City. Very little of the money that the Sans Souci hotel generated during its heyday was used to develop the Town of Ballston Spa.</p> <p>Low was a major landowner in Ballston Spa, and he leased out (99 year leases) most of the downtown area for commercial pursuits. Low saw that the townâs geographical area situated close to the Hudson River would be beneficial for manufacturing and then shipping goods down to New York City. Consequently, he built and leased out many factories and mills along the Kayderosseras Creek beginning in 1790, such as the âBlue Millâ which he sold to Hezekiah and Michael Middlebrook in 1792. While these were largely profitable to Low, it had a negative impact on the Sans Souci Hotel. The rich and elite did not care to spend their money and vacation time looking at the backs of factories and mingling with factory workers. That, combined with the success of the hotel industry in nearby Saratoga Springs, meant that most of the wealthy moved to the large hotels in Saratoga and abandoned the Sans Souci.</p> <p>Another reason cited for the decline of the Sans Souci was the failing of the mineral springs. The springs were prone to block and stop flowing, and tapping into the waters was an expensive endeavor. Furthermore, Low sought to create a monopoly on the springs. Consequently, he arranged and subdivided his land so that the springs were only accessed by private homesteads; this is in contrast to the springs in Saratoga Springs which were frequently located in the middle of roadways and in parks, where they were free for the public to use and enjoy. The private nature of the springs in Ballston Spa was a deterrent to vacationers looking for the health benefits of the water.</p> <p>A recession hit the upstate New York region in 1808 and 1809, and the Sans Souci saw significantly fewer guests that previous years. At the height of summer, the hotel only had 40 guests, which devastated Low.</p> <h2><span id="Law_school_.281849-1853.29">Law school (1849-1853)</span></h2><br><img title="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - Saratoga County Picture Gallery" alt="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - Saratoga County Picture Gallery" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://ballstonhistory.angelfire.com/images/Converse.jpg"><br> <p>In 1849 the Sans Souci hotel was sold to John W. Fowler, who there established the State and National Law School in the hotel. The school opened with a faculty of eminent professors and secured a large student body. At the examination in 1849, Ex-president Martin Van Buren, Governor Hamilton Fish, Horace Greeley, and Henry Clay were present. Ex-present Tyler was present at the commencement of 1850. Chester Arthur was a student of the law school. The law school closed its doors after only three years of operation.</p> <p>Only July 25, 1860, during the presidential nominee Stephen A. Douglas spoke to a large assembly on the piazza of the Sans Souci. He was introduced by Judge Scott.</p> <h2><span id="Ladies.E2.80.99_seminary_and_later_years_.281853-1887.29">Ladiesâ seminary and later years (1853-1887)</span></h2><br><img title="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - Shannon Selin Bordentown Archives - Shannon Selin" alt="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - Shannon Selin Bordentown Archives - Shannon Selin" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://shannonselin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Charles_Stewart-638x1024.jpg"><br> <p>The hotel was again opened as a hotel under the direction of Richard Chase until it was sold to Reverend D. W. Smith of Galway Ladiesâ Seminary for a womenâs boarding school in 1863. It ran as a boarding school until 1886.</p> <p>The hotel was opened a third time as a hotel and ran as such until 1887 when the property was purchased by Hon. Eugene F. OâConnor of New York.</p> <h2><span id="Demolition">Demolition</span></h2><br><img title="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - Balston Incorporated - (50 records found) - Phone, Address, Email ..." alt="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - Balston Incorporated - (50 records found) - Phone, Address, Email ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7317/8759745300_6e2ec6f303.jpg"><br> <p>The Sans Souci hotel was torn down in 1887 to make room for business blocks.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - Saratoga County | The New York History Blog" alt="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - Saratoga County | The New York History Blog" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpeO4ujRG1-pBZkw3nqSXaG57wMXqKniPWf7Yh9UUL-qPTlIqbA8zbg9hNZuc-s7Qpl5F7Tf0ysd4nT7Dv6y8hVGgJu1CNzoduLlgpHdTtJc0lTJ-2mDN96EXufQMMtYNs2vqmy4I76KA/s1600/Philip%252BSchuyler%252BHouse%252BSchuylerville%252B%252528NPS%252BPhoto%252529.jpg"><br></h2><br><img title="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - Saratoga County | The New York History Blog" alt="Sans Souci Hotel (Ballston Spa) - Saratoga County | The New York History Blog" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHMvxcHY1S_OZai6oa2k8z-m6ZRSvUtSTkqJ72o1cfpnub4-wtC_Yg6WN1WSmJ4iSiwINqdxyP1L_VOo1ehAHYQuHvYfrtPJiFWuCkzpBliPLAgaM97h4m0cFdz5LWzafYb1HhblvIcAw/s1600/Indian+Encampment,%2BLake%2BGeorge,%2B1872%2Bby%2BStoddard.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-25354092413322133772015-05-16T17:30:00.001-07:002015-05-16T17:30:02.391-07:00Sands Regency Casino Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjioT7rSzss18QxIE9gcY1Fyxi4jIF1O2upSYlLfebr4kVqUr-W5oknVe-mqy0JDjM28-UwD-ZReVXZ9xpN2GkDLdnnFk1DUOc7NU96ppxBUwKjH6K99qZcapjkckozImScY9L6hOI9xM/s1600/18990_57_z-702391.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjioT7rSzss18QxIE9gcY1Fyxi4jIF1O2upSYlLfebr4kVqUr-W5oknVe-mqy0JDjM28-UwD-ZReVXZ9xpN2GkDLdnnFk1DUOc7NU96ppxBUwKjH6K99qZcapjkckozImScY9L6hOI9xM/s320/18990_57_z-702391.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6149631261679680994" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p><b>Sands Regency</b> is a hotel and casino in Reno, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Truckee Gaming.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img title="Sands Regency Casino Hotel - Sands Regency Casino Hotel" alt="Sands Regency Casino Hotel - Sands Regency Casino Hotel" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.sandsrenoevents.com/images/maybirthdayinviteBIG.jpg"><br> <p>The Sands Regency opened in the early 1970s by the Cladianos family with a small hotel and casino. The hotel tower stood 15 stories and was not in the most prospective area of town at that time and even in some regards to this day but nevertheless it grew. By the late 1970s early 1980s a second tower and more casino space was built. By this time, the company was known as Sands Regent and the hotel's name became "Sands Regency" By the late 1980s, a third and final tower had been constructed giving the hotel a total of 800 rooms, and in the new tower came a parking garage. The new tower was detached from the main two towers but at the same time connected with a link between it and the original towers.</p> <p>The Sands Regency is very profitable among locals and bowlers, whom they cater to in great numbers. In the mid-1990s, Tony Roma's Ribs House opened a location inside the hotel, a comedy club opened in 2000 along with an original "Mel's" diner, all gaining to the Sands' credibility. The parent, Sands Regent, by 2006 owned and operated three properties, all in the Reno Sparks area; they included the flagship, Sands Regency, the small Rail City Casino in Sparks and Gold Ranch Casino/RV Park near California off I-80 west of Reno.</p> <p>Las Vegasâ"based Herbst Gaming (later Affinity Gaming), famous for its "Terrible's" trademark, began looking into the Reno market in 2005 and liked what they saw. They wanted to get into the market quickly and saw opportunity with Sands Regent. They bid for and won the company assets, closing their deal in October 2006, and renamed all of the Sands Regent properties without "changing" the names. The Sands Regency became Sands Regency, "A Terrible's Property", while the other two properties became "Terrible's" Rail City and Gold Ranch respectively. The Sands Regency began a major renovation in 2005, and Herbst Gaming finished it in 2007. They also renovated and expanded Rail City, which Sands Regent started. Sands Regent CEO Ferenc Szony remained on board.</p> <p>Many Reno locals know the Sands for its vibrant exterior color schemes; for over 10 years the Sands was always red with white accents, then suddenly overnight in 2003 Sands Regent painted it a bright yellow with blue accents that received mixed reviews. After the Herbst buyout, they painted it a softer gold with red accents to depict a skyline on the hotel towers' facade that received media attention for creativity.</p> <p>Tony Roma's Rib House was closed in 2006 and replaced with Fuzio Pasta and Steaks in 2007 as part of a renovation at the Sands, in 2011 it was closed down due to lack of popularity but quickly replaced with a casual-upscale bistro called "The Copa". Mel's remains in operation. There is also Taco's Tijuana inside the hotel just recently opened, as well as a coffee shop with free wi-fi, and the hotel has a buffet with a different selection every night.</p> <p>On February 1, 2013, Affinity sold the Sands Regency, along with the Gold Ranch and another casino in Dayton, for $19.2 million to Truckee Gaming, a new company led by Szony.</p> <h2><span id="Further_reading">Further reading</span></h2><br><img title="Sands Regency Casino Hotel - The Sands Regency Casino Hotel Reno (Nevada) - Reviews and Rates ..." alt="Sands Regency Casino Hotel - The Sands Regency Casino Hotel Reno (Nevada) - Reviews and Rates ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://images.travelpod.com/cache/accom_maps/Sands_Regency_Hotel_And_Casino-Reno.gif"><br> <ul><li><span>Cladianos, Pete Jr. (2002). <i>My Father's Son: A Gaming Memoir of Pete Cladianos</i>. University of Nevada Oral History Program.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASands+Regency+Casino+Hotel&rft.au=Cladianos%2C+Pete+Jr.&rft.aufirst=Pete+Jr.&rft.aulast=Cladianos&rft.btitle=My+Father%27s+Son%3A+A+Gaming+Memoir+of+Pete+Cladianos&rft.date=2002&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcontentdm.library.unr.edu%2Fcdm%2Fref%2Fcollection%2Funohp%2Fid%2F4919&rft.pub=University+of+Nevada+Oral+History+Program&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span> </span></span></li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Sands Regency Casino Hotel - Sands Regency Hotel & Casino" alt="Sands Regency Casino Hotel - Sands Regency Hotel & Casino" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.sandsregency.com/sites/default/files/prizeland-homepagebanner.jpg"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Sands Regency Casino Hotel - Sands Regency Hotel & Casino" alt="Sands Regency Casino Hotel - Sands Regency Hotel & Casino" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.sandsregency.com/sites/default/files/utilityplayers-homepage.jpg"><br> <ul><li><span><span>Sands Regency Casino Hotel</span></span></li> </ul><p><span></span></p></h2><br><img title="Sands Regency Casino Hotel - Sands Regency Hotel & Casino" alt="Sands Regency Casino Hotel - Sands Regency Hotel & Casino" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.sandsregency.com/sites/default/files/scooters-homepagebanner.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-16380389545954757892015-05-16T05:30:00.001-07:002015-05-16T05:30:03.761-07:00Sam's Town Hotel And Gambling Hall, Tunica<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnfGfZRXtHW3IOpJ3nb_uJMhQaIYAgb0DSWoo80blocqeY8XCno8bhqSkyFH9z2a2qr1_Vnq9161gtd_YwkHgLZuYpaEeZHhPZS9iVUI4E4LxxX8V78uOISqDrY2cX14W9865gCa-Wc-M/s1600/TU_Deluxe_Doubles_1-370955-full-703762.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnfGfZRXtHW3IOpJ3nb_uJMhQaIYAgb0DSWoo80blocqeY8XCno8bhqSkyFH9z2a2qr1_Vnq9161gtd_YwkHgLZuYpaEeZHhPZS9iVUI4E4LxxX8V78uOISqDrY2cX14W9865gCa-Wc-M/s320/TU_Deluxe_Doubles_1-370955-full-703762.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6149445724243864162" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The Tunica location of <b>Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall</b> is located in Tunica Resorts, Mississippi. Officially known as a riverboat casino because the gaming area is situated on a building built on barges that float in a pool of water linked to the nearby Mississippi River as required by state law, the resort in all other aspects resembles its Nevada sibling, except for the atrium. It includes a 1,600 seat showroom, a 1,070-room hotel, and an RV park.</p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img title="Sam's Town Hotel And Gambling Hall, Tunica - Sams Town Tunica Rv Park Sams Town Hotel Casino - maoxiandao" alt="Sam's Town Hotel And Gambling Hall, Tunica - Sams Town Tunica Rv Park Sams Town Hotel Casino - maoxiandao" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.jandse.com/images/2011/110607_LasVegasNv.jpg"><br> <p>Opened in 1994 by Boyd Gaming Corporation as the third Sam's Town Casino (The second being Sam's Town Gold River Laughlin which was open from 1984 to 1991 when it was sold becoming Gold River resort and later River Palms.) It was the first casino opened by Boyd outside of Nevada.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall web site (Tunica)</li> </ul><p><span></span></p></h2><br><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-60975552071545911972015-05-16T01:30:00.001-07:002015-05-16T01:30:03.325-07:00Sam's Town Hotel And Gambling Hall, Shreveport<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMfUJSz3LkDVwUASBtYHtnPlgQnfNxvWR7EvQJqESWRLYVlD8ER7dY-ihS4KJOQwhbPitQ1VlmXn8Gjc-Xe9vitl-srYvodKLRmVfcDUNhaQMEUa_aJ3wCuYS5QH_FGXPq9JCDCm1q3c/s1600/685px-Sam%252527s_Town_Hotel_and_Gambling_Hall%252C_Las_Vegas-703326.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMfUJSz3LkDVwUASBtYHtnPlgQnfNxvWR7EvQJqESWRLYVlD8ER7dY-ihS4KJOQwhbPitQ1VlmXn8Gjc-Xe9vitl-srYvodKLRmVfcDUNhaQMEUa_aJ3wCuYS5QH_FGXPq9JCDCm1q3c/s320/685px-Sam%252527s_Town_Hotel_and_Gambling_Hall%252C_Las_Vegas-703326.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6149383871189357202" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p><b>Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, Shreveport</b> is a casino and 23 story hotel located in Shreveport, Louisiana. It is owned and operated by Boyd Gaming Corporation.</p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><br> <p>First known as Harrah's Shreveport Casino and Hotel, the hotel was purchased in 2004 by Boyd Gaming Corporation from Harrah's Entertainment. Harrahs sold this casino after acquiring Horseshoe Gaming Holding Corporation.</p> <p>The casino opened under Boyd's Sam's Town brand on May 20, 2004. This is the 4th casino under the Sam's town name.</p> <h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>List of tallest buildings in Shreveport</li> </ul><h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall web site</li> </ul></h2><br><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-64923636186084370322015-05-15T21:30:00.001-07:002015-05-15T21:30:03.629-07:00Sam's Town Hotel And Gambling Hall, Las Vegas<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiafQE7MheQl71pGHgo_FO79TpGxEnuLvB_g-9KHTYBuVEVuECzaDu9v-QUm0s9sJSO94e3QbCfnBvQcWbNopsbsX9lK3phEj7YIdOeqFzGVIuwSr7r38Zv4uJbYgYwPpsgZqDS9FWLsw/s1600/685px-Sam%252527s_Town_Hotel_and_Gambling_Hall%252C_Las_Vegas-703630.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiafQE7MheQl71pGHgo_FO79TpGxEnuLvB_g-9KHTYBuVEVuECzaDu9v-QUm0s9sJSO94e3QbCfnBvQcWbNopsbsX9lK3phEj7YIdOeqFzGVIuwSr7r38Zv4uJbYgYwPpsgZqDS9FWLsw/s320/685px-Sam%252527s_Town_Hotel_and_Gambling_Hall%252C_Las_Vegas-703630.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6149322028783831426" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p><b>Sam's Town</b> is a hotel and casino located in Sunrise Manor, Nevada on the corner of Flamingo Road and Boulder Highway. It is one of the casinos owned and operated by Boyd Gaming. It is built on 13 acres (5.3 ha) and it includes two RV parks.</p> <p>One of the unique features of this hotel is "Mystic Falls," a large glass-roofed atrium with tall live trees, cobblestone paths, and a rock waterfall in the center where a laser show is performed daily at different times.</p> <p>It was the host hotel for the Sam's Town 300, a NASCAR race sponsored by Sam's Town. It was also the Las Vegas host hotel for the Silver State Classic Challenge race.</p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img title="Sam's Town Hotel And Gambling Hall, Las Vegas - Sams Town Tunica Rv Park Sams Town Hotel Casino - maoxiandao" alt="Sam's Town Hotel And Gambling Hall, Las Vegas - Sams Town Tunica Rv Park Sams Town Hotel Casino - maoxiandao" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.jandse.com/images/2011/110607_LasVegasNv.jpg"><br> <p>The original Sam's Town opened on April 1, 1979 and it was one of the first locals casinos to open in the Las Vegas Valley.</p> <p>From 1980 to 1999 the studios of Nevada Public Radio were located in a separate building on the property.</p> <p>The 2006 album <i>Sam's Town</i> by The Killers was named after the casino.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Sam's Town Hotel And Gambling Hall, Las Vegas - Sams Town Tunica Rv Park Sams Town Hotel Casino - maoxiandao" alt="Sam's Town Hotel And Gambling Hall, Las Vegas - Sams Town Tunica Rv Park Sams Town Hotel Casino - maoxiandao" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://static.boydgaming.net/tunica/media/gallery/TU_Deluxe_Doubles_1-370955-full.jpg"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li><span><span>Official website</span></span></li> </ul><p><span></span></p></h2><br><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-61234349168599378752015-05-15T13:30:00.001-07:002015-05-15T13:30:03.518-07:00Sacajawea Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiski-mGaASkcgTo5QW1yDEIC02s52Xa2ZwFjmqoFYuQxkZ53mxnTNLwV2J1RbcAkd50HLQcg8Pgvzx2DBtJ4SkSK5MhAwlVfY_Vj9seb5IxecYFRPzcnu8vKM7s5imUtiLPpq5eCKmp4w/s1600/front-703519.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiski-mGaASkcgTo5QW1yDEIC02s52Xa2ZwFjmqoFYuQxkZ53mxnTNLwV2J1RbcAkd50HLQcg8Pgvzx2DBtJ4SkSK5MhAwlVfY_Vj9seb5IxecYFRPzcnu8vKM7s5imUtiLPpq5eCKmp4w/s320/front-703519.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6149198337478679634" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The <b>Sacajawea Hotel</b>, also known as <b>Sacajawea Inn</b>, is a hotel in Three Forks, Montana, USA. Built in 1910, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The listing included three contributing buildings over a 1.8-acre (0.73 ha) area. Sacajawea Hotel is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p> <p>The hotel served passengers on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, which terminated in Three Forks until 1927, when the line was extended to Gallatin Gateway. The original building was the Madison Hotel, built in 1862 on the original Three Forks townsite, and moved on log rollers a mile to its present location. At the time, the Milwaukee Depot was across the street, though the railroad That building now is the eastern portion of the current structure, housing support facilities. In 1910, the main lobby and 29 rooms were constructed by railroad agent John Q. Adams, who hired architect Fred Willson to create a grand but warm and welcoming design.</p> <p>The condition of the hotel had declined significantly by the 1990s. In 2002 it was put up for sale and was bought in 2009 by the Folkvord family, which owns the bread company Wheat Montana. The hotel was closed for seven months for renovation, was refurbished and reopened. The hotel now includes a bar in the basement, restaurant with bar and adjoining meeting room, and 31 hotel rooms. They also offer bicycles for use on a trail that was created from one of the abandoned railroad trails.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Sacajawea Hotel - Sacajawea Hotel a guide to Montana | OregonLive.com" alt="Sacajawea Hotel - Sacajawea Hotel a guide to Montana | OregonLive.com" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://media.oregonlive.com/travel_impact/photo/hotelmontanajpg-a61d0c12c8642f28.jpg"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Sacajawea Hotel - kg090210-105.jpg" alt="Sacajawea Hotel - kg090210-105.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.sacajaweahotel.com/Websites/sacajaweahotel/images/kg090210-105.jpg"><br> <ul><li>Sacajawea Hotel website</li> </ul><p><br></p></h2><br><img title="Sacajawea Hotel - Photos for Sacajawea Hotel | Yelp" alt="Sacajawea Hotel - Photos for Sacajawea Hotel | Yelp" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/rAhqfy-ZDQzNOur0ndb4Zw/o.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-13405562682592978182015-05-15T01:30:00.001-07:002015-05-15T01:30:04.653-07:00Royalton Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbkeXPd8G-PhlHD8Kcn3nsUyxcWEpmqpKTbmATcpK-b8DluIAuq0dmsqUWtg5kSacOvKHx9ex9YgO7ZVZBtrAhyZJBAt68L-GHOcFyJI8z26CPAI9_lsiF4-OL8ZGCPkEeUPsRMWLFwTY/s1600/8989_88_z-704653.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbkeXPd8G-PhlHD8Kcn3nsUyxcWEpmqpKTbmATcpK-b8DluIAuq0dmsqUWtg5kSacOvKHx9ex9YgO7ZVZBtrAhyZJBAt68L-GHOcFyJI8z26CPAI9_lsiF4-OL8ZGCPkEeUPsRMWLFwTY/s320/8989_88_z-704653.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6149012790137453426" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p><b>Royalton Hotel</b> is located just east of Times Square in Manhattan at 44 West 44th Street</p> <p>The building was built in 1898 as the exclusive residential Hotel Royalton. Rossiter & Wright was the architecture firm commissioned, and the contractor was E. F. Dodson & Company. Its design was unusual because it was one of the first buildings to enable street-level passage from one block to the next. As originally designed, tenants had apartments overlooking 43rd or 44th Street, while servants lived in rooms overlooking the airshafts along the sides of the building.</p> <p>Royalton was designed to mirror the 1920s concept of a hotel lobby. It was reopened as the Royalton Hotel on October 10, 1988. It was the first hotel designed by Philippe Starck.</p> <p>Royalton is now part of the Morgans Hotel Group collection of hotels. During the summer of 2007, the Morgans Hotel Group decided to renovate the hotel to update the interior. The hotel reopened on October 1, 2007.</p> <p>The hotel is mentioned in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Royalton Hotel - Book Royalton, New York, New York - Hotels.com" alt="Royalton Hotel - Book Royalton, New York, New York - Hotels.com" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://exp.cdn-hotels.com/hotels/1000000/10000/9000/8989/8989_49_z.jpg"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Royalton Hotel - Own entity: Objects, Furniture, Interiors." alt="Royalton Hotel - Own entity: Objects, Furniture, Interiors." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://ownentity.com/images/uploads/homepage__0003_Royalton.44A_.jpg"><br> <ul><li>Royalton Hotel</li> </ul><p><span></span></p> <p><br></p></h2><br><img title="Royalton Hotel - Royalton Hotel New York Luxury Hotel Midtown Photos" alt="Royalton Hotel - Royalton Hotel New York Luxury Hotel Midtown Photos" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.topboxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/The-Royalton-Hotel-Design-Interior-2.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-85872043460501950592015-05-14T21:30:00.001-07:002015-05-14T21:30:03.363-07:00Royal Poinciana Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYj0SxiI5P1cieYRs2h0b68p0zBU8p-Zta7STJn6hgIYB79VHBCq43YMiOxhvX4MczjIhchFfH0CEtNUx2EEIvU8tbci4Wg21MgRQSY7rJAi8qadKYawh7DGM68N_JwNAWkZ1cFalSjZM/s1600/Dining_Room%252C_Royal_Poinciana_Hotel%252C_Palm_Beach%252C_FL-703364.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYj0SxiI5P1cieYRs2h0b68p0zBU8p-Zta7STJn6hgIYB79VHBCq43YMiOxhvX4MczjIhchFfH0CEtNUx2EEIvU8tbci4Wg21MgRQSY7rJAi8qadKYawh7DGM68N_JwNAWkZ1cFalSjZM/s320/Dining_Room%252C_Royal_Poinciana_Hotel%252C_Palm_Beach%252C_FL-703364.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6148950940283040306" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The <b>Royal Poinciana Hotel</b> was a Gilded Age hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, United States. Enlarged twice and doubling in size each time, it became the largest wooden structure in the world, with 1,700 employees and accommodations for 2,000 guests. It closed and was razed during the Great Depression.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History_of_the_hotel">History of the hotel</span></h2><br><img title="Royal Poinciana Hotel - Flagler's Royal Poinciana Hotel set guiding standard in its day ..." alt="Royal Poinciana Hotel - Flagler's Royal Poinciana Hotel set guiding standard in its day ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/960/img/photos/2012/04/01/95/77/unforgetwashingtonb_638194a.jpg"><br> <p>The six-story, Georgian-style hotel was built as a winter retreat for the elite by Henry Flagler, an oil, real estate and railroad tycoon. When he began buying tracts of land here "at any price," Palm Beach was a desolate barrier island on Florida's Atlantic coast. That began changing, however, when Flagler extended his Florida East Coast Railway to West Palm Beach. The Royal Poinciana Hotel, built beside the Lake Worth Lagoon, was intended to accommodate his railroad's passengers escaping cold northern winters. Ground was broken May 1, 1893, and the hotel opened on February 11, 1894â"welcoming 17 guests.</p> <p>Flagler built a spur line across Lake Worth to Palm Beach, allowing the wealthy to arrive directly at the hotel's entrance in their own private railway cars. Palm Beach quickly developed into a popular tourist destination for parties, golf, tennis, boating, bathing and fishing. The social season originally ran between mid-December and February 23 (the day after Flagler's annual George Washington Ball held at <i>Whitehall</i>, his 1902 mansion). Enlarged to handle the crowds, the hotel stretched 1,800 feet (549 meters) along Lake Worth. Its hallways totaled more than three miles (5 kilometers) in length. Bellhops delivered messages and packages from the front desk to guests' rooms by bicycle. On the beachside portion of the property, Flagler erected in 1896 <b>The Palm Beach Inn</b>, renamed <b>The Breakers Hotel</b> in 1901 because guests often requested rooms "over by the breakers." Patrons were shuttled between the two hotels along a pine trail in wheeled chairs powered by employees, with a separate palm trail reserved for pedestrians.</p> <h2><span id="Pre-Negro_Leagues.2C_Winter_League_baseball_team">Pre-Negro Leagues, Winter League baseball team</span></h2><br><img title="Royal Poinciana Hotel - Royal Poinciana Hotel And Grounds Palm Beach by Unknown" alt="Royal Poinciana Hotel - Royal Poinciana Hotel And Grounds Palm Beach by Unknown" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/royal-poinciana-hotel-and-grounds-palm-beach-unknown.jpg"><br> <p>In the winter of 1915/1916, the Royal Poinciana Hotel hired the services of C.I. Taylor and many members of his Indianapolis ABCs pre-Negro League baseball team to take on another pre-Negro League baseball team hosted by the Breakers. The games hosted Negro League baseball stars of the day, including Ben Taylor, C.I. Taylor, Candy Jim Taylor, John Donaldson, Ashby Dunbar, Jim Jeffries, Jimmie Lyons, and Spot Poles.</p> <h2><span id="The_1920s_and_1930s">The 1920s and 1930s</span></h2><br><img title="Royal Poinciana Hotel - Window-shop like the pioneers did | Historic Palm Beach" alt="Royal Poinciana Hotel - Window-shop like the pioneers did | Historic Palm Beach" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://cmgpbphistoricalpalmbeach.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/rphshop.jpg"><br> <p>In the 1920s, however, tourists began to consider Victorian hotels as relics, and attendance at the Royal Poinciana declined. In 1925, the Breakers burned and was rebuilt, reopening in 1926 with new luxuries which attracted guests away from the Royal Poinciana. The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane hit the old hotel hard, especially the north wing, which shifted off its foundation. It was repaired, but then the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression dealt fatal blows. The sprawling structure closed in 1934, and was torn down by Labor Day of 1935. In 1960, a marker was placed at the redeveloped site of the grand hotel which had helped establish Palm Beach.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Royal Poinciana Hotel - Florida Memory - The Royal Poinciana hotel - Palm Beach, Florida" alt="Royal Poinciana Hotel - Florida Memory - The Royal Poinciana hotel - Palm Beach, Florida" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="https://floridamemory.com/fpc/reference/rc00-97.jpg"><br> <ul><li>Florida's Grand Hotels from the Gilded Age</li> <li>History of The Breakers Hotel</li> <li>History of Palm Beach, Florida</li> </ul><h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Royal Poinciana Hotel - Unforgettable Palm Beach: Maddock, known for 1902 Palm Beach Hote ..." alt="Royal Poinciana Hotel - Unforgettable Palm Beach: Maddock, known for 1902 Palm Beach Hote ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/960/img/photos/2012/04/01/57/19/cmypbhotel_maddock_595959a.jpg"><br> <ul><li>Historical Society of Palm Beach County</li> <li><i>Whitehall</i>, Flagler Museum</li> <li>Welcome to the Royal Poinciana Hotel History and photographic archive</li> </ul><p></p></h2><br><img title="Royal Poinciana Hotel - Royal Poinciana Hotel On Lake Worth by Unknown" alt="Royal Poinciana Hotel - Royal Poinciana Hotel On Lake Worth by Unknown" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/royal-poinciana-hotel-on-lake-worth-unknown.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-71407605831414257922015-05-14T09:30:00.001-07:002015-05-14T09:30:03.175-07:00Royal Hawaiian Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrfLKqashP3yHEDGeBaJ00MCAGi-H8U0doTMN0lPBnXzG2LIKfZ-pSkr5yof6aFoaTQ_vRjnkKBQAdz1vJUqumqv4WoBd3YVLb20Tz3Zuh7IoDjw6dKaggp8k8UC-0jIcRpaX-jMp36r0/s1600/3077848949_77551b253a_b-703175.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrfLKqashP3yHEDGeBaJ00MCAGi-H8U0doTMN0lPBnXzG2LIKfZ-pSkr5yof6aFoaTQ_vRjnkKBQAdz1vJUqumqv4WoBd3YVLb20Tz3Zuh7IoDjw6dKaggp8k8UC-0jIcRpaX-jMp36r0/s320/3077848949_77551b253a_b-703175.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6148765395560653442" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p><b>The Royal Hawaiian Hotel</b> is a beachfront luxury hotel located on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii on the island of Oahu. One of the first hotels established in Waikiki, The Royal Hawaiian is considered one of the most luxurious and famous hotels in Hawaii tourism, and in its nearly 90 year history has been host to numerous celebrities and world dignitaries. The hotel's bright pink hue and prominent location on the beach have earned it the nickname "The Pink Palace of the Pacific".</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img title="Royal Hawaiian Hotel - File:Royal Hawaiian Hotel.jpg - Wikimedia Commons" alt="Royal Hawaiian Hotel - File:Royal Hawaiian Hotel.jpg - Wikimedia Commons" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Royal_Hawaiian_Hotel.jpg"><br> <p>With the success of the early efforts by Matson Navigation Company to provide steamer travel to America's wealthiest families en route to Hawaii, a series of resort hotels were built in Honolulu in the first decades of the Twentieth Century. These included the Moana Hotel (1901) and Honolulu Seaside Hotel, both on Waikiki Beach, and the Alexander Young Hotel in downtown Honolulu (1903).</p> <p>In 1925, the Territorial Hotel Company, by then owner of all three hotels, decided to demolish the Honolulu Seaside and replace it with a large, modern resort. They hired Warren & Wetmore, the nation's premier hotel architects of the era, to design the <b>Royal Hawaiian Hotel</b>. The sprawling pink Moorish complex, built at a cost of over $5 million, was surrounded by a fifteen-acre landscaped garden. The hotel was built roughly shaped like the letter "H" to catch the trade winds and featured 400 rooms, each with bath and balcony. The hotel also had an offsite golf course, designed by Seth Raynor, today known as the Waialae Country Club. The Matson Line built the ocean liner SS Malolo at the same time in a joint effort to bring tourists to Hawaii.</p> <p>The Royal Hawaiian opened its doors to guests on February 1, 1927 with a black tie gala attended by over 1,200 guests, and quickly became an icon of Hawaii's glory days. The hotel was a huge success, and in 1928 the islands counted over 20,000 visitors for the first time. Unfortunately the Territorial Hotel Company was bankrupted by the Great Depression and the Matson Line took over its hotels in 1932.</p> <p>During World War II, the Royal Hawaiian was closed to tourists and instead served as a place of rest and relaxation for members of the U.S. military. While the Royal Hawaiian's lush tropical garden was (and still is) tranquil and poetic, on the beaches fronting the Pink Palace (sometimes referred to as the Pink Lady) one saw reminders of the war with rolls and rolls of barbed wire planted in the sand. The hotel was sold, along with the rest of Matson's hotels in Hawaii, to the Sheraton Corporation in 1959.</p> <p>During the 1960s, the Pink Palace was home to "Concert by the Sea" which broadcast daily through Armed Forces Radio Network (AFN). Soldiers would listen to sounds of home all across Vietnam, and then on R&R would come to Waikiki to visit the Pink Palace in person.</p> <p>In September 1974, Japanese businessmen and brothers Kenji Osano and Masakuni Osano purchased the Royal Hawaiian Hotel from ITT Sheraton. The Osano brothers formed Kyo-ya Company Limited, a subsidiary of Kokusai Kogyo Company Limited as the corporate entity charged with overseeing the hotel properties they had bought from Sheraton: Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Moana Hotel, Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hotel, Sheraton Surfrider Hotel, Sheraton Maui Hotel, Sheraton-Palace Hotel, and Sheraton-West Hotel. The purchases put the Osano brothers on the Forbes List of World's Richest People in 1999.</p> <p>After the Osano brothers' deaths, Takamasa Osano inherited their properties, worth billions of dollars. Along with the Moana Hotel, the Royal Hawaiian Hotel continues to be one of the flagship hotels in the Osano corporate empire and is the part-time residence of the Osano family.</p> <p>The ground upon which the hotel is built is owned by Kamehameha Schools, which leases the land.</p> <p>The Royal Hawaiian closed on 1 June 2008 for a complete renovation. The property reopened on 20 January 2009 as a member of The Luxury Collection Resort division of Starwood Hotels. An extended renovation of the Royal Beach Tower was completed in 2010. The Royal Hawaiian Hotel is a member of Historic Hotel of America the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p> <h2><span id="Architecture">Architecture</span></h2><br><img title="Royal Hawaiian Hotel - Beach in front of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Waikiki Beach ..." alt="Royal Hawaiian Hotel - Beach in front of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Waikiki Beach ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000zxoQE8LP0Lo/s/850/850/20070624-hawaii-0578.jpg"><br> <p>The Royal Hawaiian cost USD $4 million and took one and a half years to build. The six-story structure had 400 rooms and designed in the Spanish and Moorish styles popular during the 1920s. The Royal Hawaiian Hotel was also influenced by Hollywood legend Rudolph Valentino and his Arabian movies. Cupolas were created to resemble Spanish Mission style bell towers. The pink color was taken from a popular American obsession of the era. The architects were Warren and Wetmore of New York City.</p> <p>The hotel's public rooms, notably the Oceanside Lobby and Recreation Lounge, were redecorated in 1946 by Frances Elkins, the sister of architect David Adler.</p> <h2><span id="Notable_guests_and_tenants">Notable guests and tenants</span></h2><br><img title="Royal Hawaiian Hotel - Royal Hawaiian Hotel - Hawaiian Hotel | All World Hotel Online ..." alt="Royal Hawaiian Hotel - Royal Hawaiian Hotel - Hawaiian Hotel | All World Hotel Online ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/royal-hawaiian-hotel-will-borden.jpg"><br> <p>As soon as The Royal Hawaiian opened, a non-stop flood of tourists from the mainland United States poured through its doors. It served as the Pacific home to the world's most influential statesmen and early Hollywood stars.</p> <p>Its first official registered guest was Princess Abigail Kawananakoa, who would have been queen of the Kingdom of Hawaii had the monarchy survived. Duke Kahanamoku, the legendary Olympic swimmer and popularizer of the sport of surfing, frequented the Royal Hawaiian Hotel restaurants and private beachfront. The Royal Hawaiian Hotel became a favorite stomping ground for Kahanamoku's famed group, dubbed the "Waikiki Beach Boys".</p> <p>Prior to the 2010 renovation, a framed replica of a Guest Registration Card bearing the signature of then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt was displayed in a main hallway corridor of the main hotel. The card was dated during the Great Depression.</p> <p>During World War II, the Royal Hawaiian Hotel became home to many returning sailors off long war patrols.</p> <h2><span id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</span></h2><br><img title="Royal Hawaiian Hotel - The Seea x The Royal Hawaiian Hotel Exclusive Rashguard | Seea" alt="Royal Hawaiian Hotel - The Seea x The Royal Hawaiian Hotel Exclusive Rashguard | Seea" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0093/6202/files/RoyalHawaiianHotelPostcard.jpg%3F6218"><br> <p>The hotel has featured in numerous media projects.</p> <h3><span id="In_film">In film</span></h3> <ul><li>In 1931, the hotel was used in the Charlie Chan film "The Black Camel".</li> <li>In 1952, the hotel lobby was captured in the John Wayne film <i>Big Jim McLain</i>.</li> <li>In 1961, the hotel appeared in scenes of the movie <i>Gidget Goes Hawaiian</i>.</li> <li>In 1978, the hotel was used in the film <i>Goin' Coconuts</i></li> <li>In 2002, the hotel was featured in several scenes of P.T. Anderson's film <i>Punch-Drunk Love</i>.</li> </ul><h2><span id="In_television">In television</span></h2><br><img title="Royal Hawaiian Hotel - Waikiki Hotel Opens Brand New Photo Exhibit" alt="Royal Hawaiian Hotel - Waikiki Hotel Opens Brand New Photo Exhibit" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://cdn.discoverhawaiitours.com/wp-content/uploads/blog/2011/08/Royal-Hawaiian-Hotel.jpg"><br> <ul><li>In 1977, the hotel was featured in the <i>Charlie's Angels</i> episode "Angels in Paradise".</li> <li>In 1979, the hotel was featured in the <i>Eight Is Enough</i> episode "Fathers and Other Strangers" Parts 1 and 2.</li> <li>In 1986, the hotel was featured in the <i>Murder She Wrote</i> episode "Magnum on Ice", starring Angela Lansbury and guest starring Tom Selleck.</li> <li>In 2002, the hotel was featured in the <i>My Wife and Kids</i> episode "The Kyles Go To Hawaii".</li> <li>In 2013, the hotel featured prominently in the <i>Mad Men</i> season 6 premiere, "The Doorway".</li> </ul><h2><span id="Further_reading">Further reading</span></h2><br><img title="Royal Hawaiian Hotel - íìì´ í¸í
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" ìì¹ ì¶"ì²ê³¼ ì¼ì :: ë¯¸êµ ì§ë 보기-ë¯¸êµ ì¬íë°ì¬ (ë´ì ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/61/154852705_ecca72661e_m.jpg"><br> <ul><li><span>Glen Grant (1996). <i>WaikÄ«kÄ« Yesteryear</i>. Mutual Publishing Co. ISBN 1-56647-107-9.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARoyal+Hawaiian+Hotel&rft.au=Glen+Grant&rft.aulast=Glen+Grant&rft.btitle=Waik%C4%ABk%C4%AB+Yesteryear&rft.date=1996&rft.genre=book&rft.isbn=1-56647-107-9&rft.pub=Mutual+Publishing+Co.&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span> </span></span></li> <li><span>Don Hibbard and David Franzen (1995). <i>The View from Diamond Head: Royal Residence to Urban Resort</i>. Editions Ltd. ISBN 0-915013-02-9.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARoyal+Hawaiian+Hotel&rft.au=Don+Hibbard+and+David+Franzen&rft.aulast=Don+Hibbard+and+David+Franzen&rft.btitle=The+View+from+Diamond+Head%3A+Royal+Residence+to+Urban+Resort&rft.date=1995&rft.genre=book&rft.isbn=0-915013-02-9&rft.pub=Editions+Ltd.&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span> </span></span></li> <li><span>George S. Kanahele (1996). <i>WaikÄ«kÄ«, 100 BC to 1900 AD: An Untold Story</i>. University of Hawai<span>Ê»</span>i Press. ISBN 0-8248-1790-7.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARoyal+Hawaiian+Hotel&rft.au=George+S.+Kanahele&rft.aulast=George+S.+Kanahele&rft.btitle=Waik%C4%ABk%C4%AB%2C+100+BC+to+1900+AD%3A+An+Untold+Story&rft.date=1996&rft.genre=book&rft.isbn=0-8248-1790-7&rft.pub=University+of+Hawai%3Cspan+class%3D%22unicode%22%3E%26%23x02BB%3B%3C%2Fspan%3Ei+Press&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span> </span></span></li> </ul><h2><span id="Gallery">Gallery</span></h2><br><img title="Royal Hawaiian Hotel - About SteelC6th.com" alt="Royal Hawaiian Hotel - About SteelC6th.com" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.steelc6th.com/images/royal_hawaiian_hotel_beachside.jpg"><br> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"><li class="gallerycaption">The Royal Hawaiian</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Royal Hawaiian Hotel official website</li> </ul></h2><br><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-75756940205782375702015-05-14T05:30:00.001-07:002015-05-14T05:30:05.915-07:00Roxy Hotel<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVE-iGjBvXHyx3qtVMOd51lXuYJd5KlFcMhOJWowYKCM0eOW4FOf3MxTyhoEM54958gL7VAIBYQM4mKn9U6QkNgSMxB5svy03fJoSzoCPe3LhUY40RIXvSsK4h-LYCZ_RfO9G_ENCIQ00/s1600/untitled-66761-705916.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVE-iGjBvXHyx3qtVMOd51lXuYJd5KlFcMhOJWowYKCM0eOW4FOf3MxTyhoEM54958gL7VAIBYQM4mKn9U6QkNgSMxB5svy03fJoSzoCPe3LhUY40RIXvSsK4h-LYCZ_RfO9G_ENCIQ00/s320/untitled-66761-705916.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6148703564521096962" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p><b>Roxy Hotel</b> is a historic hotel located at Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York. It is a red brick structure consisting of two sections: a three story, eight bay main block and a two story, four bay side wing. It was built in 1894, and has remained in continuous use as a hotel and center of the local tourist trade. The hotel was restored in 2011 by Michael Treanor , into 16 hotel rooms and an Irish Pub called Monaghan's Irish Pub.</p> <p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Roxy Hotel - Grand Mercure Roxy Hotel, Singapore - Book Cheap & Discount Hotels ..." alt="Roxy Hotel - Grand Mercure Roxy Hotel, Singapore - Book Cheap & Discount Hotels ..." style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://res3.hoteltravel.com/singapore/singapore/hotels_resorts/cencen_r142183844955144100749_big.jpg"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Roxy Hotel - Grand Mercure Roxy Hotel - lastminute.com.au" alt="Roxy Hotel - Grand Mercure Roxy Hotel - lastminute.com.au" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://whi.lastminute.com.au/data/images/1200/2ebef51d73ab49a7b69ab18a2b28c180-full.jpg"><br> <ul><li>Roxy Hotel website</li> </ul><p><br></p></h2><br><img title="Roxy Hotel - Roxy Hotel | I AM GOING OUT" alt="Roxy Hotel - Roxy Hotel | I AM GOING OUT" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://imgoingout.com.au/wp-content/uploads/gallery/images/gallery-502/c85-Roxy%2520Hotel%2520Club%2520pic%25209.jpg"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912069466093528243.post-5158956679416110722015-05-14T01:30:00.001-07:002015-05-14T01:30:02.974-07:00Roosevelt Hotel (Portland, Oregon)<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiDWLdACEAUf6qypanXc1mrbRXIEyRK2YomxVAX5G86RTFMgYUEVIlqfEdDpVS18f9hiVGDqxUdJcB-ZBH9MQAd7nmssgnbmmBchFnXSLx2o6tDhK_cfEkGM7eLlRzkf8wfggxB0588_g/s1600/720px-Roosevelt_Hotel_-_Portland%252C_Oregon-702974.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiDWLdACEAUf6qypanXc1mrbRXIEyRK2YomxVAX5G86RTFMgYUEVIlqfEdDpVS18f9hiVGDqxUdJcB-ZBH9MQAd7nmssgnbmmBchFnXSLx2o6tDhK_cfEkGM7eLlRzkf8wfggxB0588_g/s320/720px-Roosevelt_Hotel_-_Portland%252C_Oregon-702974.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6148641699021987682" /></a></p><a name='more'></a><p>The <b>Roosevelt Hotel</b> was a hotel located in downtown Portland, Oregon at 1005 SW Park. It was built in 1924 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2000â"2001 the building was converted to condominiums.</p> <p>The exterior facade of the building underwent restoration work in 2010.</p> <h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><img title="Roosevelt Hotel (Portland, Oregon) - File:Roosevelt Hotel front - Portland, Oregon.JPG - Wikimedia Commons" alt="Roosevelt Hotel (Portland, Oregon) - File:Roosevelt Hotel front - Portland, Oregon.JPG - Wikimedia Commons" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Roosevelt_Hotel_front_-_Portland,_Oregon.JPG/705px-Roosevelt_Hotel_front_-_Portland,_Oregon.JPG"><br> <ul><li>National Register of Historic Places listings in Southwest Portland, Oregon</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img title="Roosevelt Hotel (Portland, Oregon) - Roosevelt Hotel (Portland, Oregon)" alt="Roosevelt Hotel (Portland, Oregon) - Roosevelt Hotel (Portland, Oregon)" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://oregondigital.org/cgi-bin/showfile.exe%3FCISOROOT%3D/archpnw%26CISOPTR%3D5799"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img title="Roosevelt Hotel (Portland, Oregon) - Historic Portland | TRIPS INTO HISTORY/ Historic Sites" alt="Roosevelt Hotel (Portland, Oregon) - Historic Portland | TRIPS INTO HISTORY/ Historic Sites" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://tripsintohistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/CalGorgeVancouverOregCity-237.jpg"><br> <p> Media related to Roosevelt Hotel (Portland, Oregon) at Wikimedia Commons</p></h2><br><img title="Roosevelt Hotel (Portland, Oregon) - Portland to Roosevelt Hotel, Seattle by bus, train, car, plane" alt="Roosevelt Hotel (Portland, Oregon) - Portland to Roosevelt Hotel, Seattle by bus, train, car, plane" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" src="http://www.rome2rio.com/i/Portland/Roosevelt-Hotel-Seattle"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06274234030848687113noreply@blogger.com0