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The Millennium Hotel St. Louis, [3] more commonly known simply as the Millennium Hotel, [4] is a defunct hotel complex in downtown St. Louis, Missouri that closed in 2014. The lower complex consisted of a plaza and several recreational facilities. Two towers, Millennium Hotel Tower I and Millennium Hotel Tower II, made up the hotel space. Tower ...
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The building's Renaissance Revival design is an example of common styles in St. Louis architecture in the 1920s. The hotel was built to serve middle-class guests, but it had advanced fireproofing, two restaurants, and a rathskeller. [3] In 1913, construction for the hotel began, replacing a three-story building. The hotel cost about $250,000 to ...
Opened in 1928, the Tiger Hotel was designed by architect Alonzo H Gentry. [2] and constructed by the Simon Construction Company.Upon opening, the 100-room hotel was the first skyscraper to be located between Kansas City and St. Louis.
On January 4, 1917, the notorious hotel master thief Ernest Le Ford was arrested at the Buckingham Hotel after successfully robbing over $50,000 (US$1,189,091 in 2023 dollars [9]) worth of jewels from lavish hotels in New York City. [10] Renovated hotel building
The Magnolia Hotel St. Louis is a historic hotel in downtown St. Louis, Missouri.Opened in 1925, it has been known for most of its existence as the Mayfair Hotel.. The Mayfair was founded by hotelier Charles Heiss, a Bavarian who worked in hotels in Europe, Canada, and elsewhere in America.
The original east half of the Hotel Jefferson was designed by Barnett, Haynes & Barnett; the Classical Revival structure features terra cotta decorations. The hotel was opened to the public for the first time on April 2, 1904, for a charity ball sponsored by the St. Louis chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Confederate Memorial Society. [2]
The hotel, along with the Hotel Statler and the Mayfair Hotel, was built as part of a commercial boom in downtown St. Louis in the 1920s. It was the last hotel built in the area before the Great Depression, another hotel did not open in downtown St. Louis until 1963. The Lennox Hotel closed after newer hotels were built in the 1970s. [2]