There are five separate buildings (numbered 100-500) that comprise the Hotel Provincial of New Orleans. Each building has its own colorful history. The hotel’s current owners purchased the property in the late 1960s and restored the buildings to better than their former glory. The first owner of the property on which 100 and 200 sit …
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The Mission Inn of Newport Beach, California
Through humble beginnings as a quaint boarding home in the late 1800s, The Mission Inn flourished as a full-service inn by the early 1900s. Due in part to southern California’s warm weather and its boom in citrus sales, Newport Beach attracted affluent travelers and wealthy investors from as far away as Europe. The Mission Inn …
The History of the Casa Monica Hotel – St Augustine, Florida
In 1887, Henry Flagler, Standard Oil’s cofounder, sold a portion of his land in St. Augustine, Florida to a fledgling architect from Boston, Franklin Smith. It was Smith’s dream to build and run his very own hotel. Eighteen months after Smith purchased this land in St Augustine, he was cutting the ribbon at the opening …
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