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The fourteen architects featured in this book designed 304 hotels and apartment hotels. Many were designed on the European plan for families to live without ful

This book is a sequel to my first hotel book, ?Great American Hoteliers: Pioneers of the Hotel Industry? AuthorHouse 2009. It tells the fascinating and unpredic

My long-time preoccupation with hotel history reveals one continuous strand: the achievements of unique entrepreneurs who created singular hotels one at a time.

During the thirty years prior to the Civil War, Americans built hotels larger and more ostentatious than any in the rest of the world. These hotels were inextri

The twelve architects featured in this book designed ninety-four hotels from 1878 to 1948. Many of them worked as apprentices in architect’s offices. Some wer