The end of the nineteenth century brought with it profound changes to the city’s town planning. The government began action to renovate the most deprived areas of Naples and to construct the sea-front from scratch. This exciting atmosphere of urban renewal also attracted a Belgian financier named Oscar du Mesnil, who was in Naples with his wife. He was so fascinated by the city that he decided to construct a hotel on the new sea-front to do justice to the beauty of the site. “Grand Hotel du Vesuve” was duly constructed in 1882.
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The Grand Pacific Hotel was one of the first two prominent hotels built in Chicago, Illinois, after the Great Chicago Fire. The hotel, designed by William W. Boyington and managed for more than 20 years by John Drake, was located on the block bounded by Clark Street, LaSalle, Quincy and Jackson. It was a replacement for the Pacific Hotel, which had been built in 1871 (also designed by Boyington), only to burn in the fire later that year.
Grande Hotel d' Europe, Venice, Italy
Twain remarks that the gondola he rode in belonged to the Grand Hotel d' Europe, so I assume that is where he stayed while in Venice. I did not find a listing for this hotel on Google but I did find the Hotel Londra Palace of Venice operating in 1853.
The Great Eastern Hotel (officially The LaLiT Great Eastern Kolkata) is a colonial era hotel in the Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). The hotel was established in 1840/41; at a time when Calcutta, the seat of the East India Company, was the most important city in India. Referred to as "Jewel of the East" in its heyday, Great Eastern Hotel hosted several notable persons visiting the city. After India's independence in 1947, the hotel continued its business and later the state government took over the management.
Currently Rubin Hall, an undergraduate residence for New York University students.
When wealthy New Yorkers returned from their summer homes following the summer season of 1876, they found that the new Grosvenor Hotel had opened. Sitting in the most fashionable section of the city, on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 10th Street, the hotel consumed two building lots—Nos. 35 and 37 Fifth Avenue. The lack of protest from neighbors was no doubt due to its restrained architecture and high-class clientele.
Affectionately known as the "Grand Old Lady of the South", the Grosvenor Hotel is very much a part of Timaru's history with ornate styling dating back to the last century. The Grosvenor, with its foundation stone being laid in 1875 has a very long and prolific history. The hotel got off to a rough start, as shortly after the hotel was completed it burnt down. The façade you see today comes after the rebuilding in 1915. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has stayed twice giving the hotel its well-known pedigree.
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Hamilton Hotel was the first purpose-built hotel in Bermuda. Located on Church Street (originally named Elliott Street) in Hamilton, construction began in 1852 and opened its doors in 1861. The hotel was instrumental in starting tourism in Bermuda. It was destroyed by fire in 1955.
Otsego Hotel opened in April 1904 on the previous site of the Hibbard House, which was built in 1865 and razed in 1901 after its manager, Henry Haden, died.
As Jackson began to grow as a railroad mecca in the mid-1860s, hotels began to spring up near the now historic depot the trains arrived to and departed from.
One of them - perhaps the most elegant of its time - was the Hibbard House, a four-story structure built in 1865 by Jackson businessman and stagecoach tycoon Daniel Hibbard at what's now the corner of E. Michigan Ave. and Francis Street.
n 1880s New York City, few hotels could match the elegance of Hoffman House, on Broadway between 24th and 25th Streets. And the hotel’s mahogany-walled grand bar and salon was famous in the city.
This was where New York’s titans of industry and political power brokers congregated. Boss Tweed was a regular, along with Grover Cleveland, William Randolph Hearst, and Ulysses S. Grant.
The Holland House opened in 1892. It was a large building of Indiana limestone, 100 by 150 feet (30 m × 46 m). Special interest was attached to it as it was a careful reproduction of Holland House of London. It contained the coat-of-arms of Henry Rich, the first Earl of Holland, with the decorations and historic features of the Kensington mansion. The house was one of the architectural features of Fifth Avenue.
The Beau-Rivage Palace is a historical luxury five-star hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is located in Ouchy, on the shores of Lake Léman.
The hotel opened in 1861 and the current main building was constructed in Art Nouveau and neo-baroque style in 1908. It is registered in the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance.
The Beau-Rivage Palace is owned by Sandoz Family Foundation founders of Sandoz AG, now Novartis.
The Hotel Bristol is a grand hotel in Vienna on the Ringstrasse next to the Vienna State Opera . It opened on June 26, 1892 as the Hotel am Ring , and is owned by the Sacher Group and managed by Marriott International .
The Hotel Britannia, Venice, was the result of the joining of five 18th and 19th century palaces. The oldest palace belonged to theTiepolos, the illustrious Venetian family that gave the city two “doges” and the seventeenth century painter Giambattista Tiepolo.
By the 19th century Palazzo Tiepolo and the buildings that face the lovely courtyard on the Grand Canal had already been converted into a hotel. Initially operated under the name Hotel Barbesi (1868), it was later known as the Hotel Britannia (1881). The owner and manager was a gentleman named Carlo Walther.
Possible location, Via Ugo Bassi, 32
The site of Twain's faux pax after dinner speech regarding Holmes, Emerson and Longfellow pretenders.
The Hotel Cecil was a grand hotel built 1890–96 between the Thames Embankment and the Strand in London, England. It was named after Cecil House (also known as Salisbury House), a mansion belonging to the Cecil family, which occupied the site in the 17th century. The hotel was largely demolished in 1930, and Shell Mex House now stands on its site.
The Hotel Danieli is a palatial five-star hotel in Venice, Italy. The central wing of the hotel was built as the Palazzo Dandolo at the end of the 14th century, by one of the Dandolo families.
Sam remembered the hotel as a “plain, simple, unpretending, good hotel” in chapter 21 of A Tramp Abroad.
Bædeker mentions it only briefly as one of four first class hotels in Baden-Baden.
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During its history of nearly four centuries, the Hôtel de l'Ecu de Genève, which no longer exists, had four different locations. Originally established on the side of the rue de la Rivière (the current rue de la Confédération), it was moved for the first time to the south front of the rue du Rhône, then occupied a house on the banks of the river and, finally, the plot neighbour, located near the Place du Rhône. The first mention of the hotel dates back to 1560. Ref: The monuments of art and history of the canton of Geneva. Volume I - Geneva on the water.
As early as the 12th century, an inn stood here, at what was then the meat and fish market. From the town hall to a guild hall to the Wirtshaus zur Waage (1807) – the history was eventful until the Hotel des Balances finally opened in 1836. Successful hoteliers such as Jean Haecky and Fritz Rindlisbacher celebrated hospitality and gourmet cuisine at the highest level here.