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In 2021, the project was updated to a cost of $105 million, with 40 apartments and similar other uses, including four to five bars, restaurants, and coffee shops; the hotel was cut from the plan and replaced with a two-story restaurant and office space with a rooftop bar. The estimated completion date was moved from 2021 to summer 2023. [7]
The first hotel built on that site was completed in 1842 at a cost of about $100,000. It was destroyed in a fire, along with the neighboring Odeon Theater, on November 6, 1860. [ 1 ] The loss was only partly insured ($10,000, with a structural loss of $150,000 [ 5 ] ), but Neil proceeded to build a smaller hotel on the site by 1862.
The Jefferson is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. [6] On site is "Lemaire", a restaurant named after Etienne Lemaire, who served as maitre d'hotel to Thomas Jefferson from 1794 through the end of his presidency.
The building opened as the Hotel Hartman in November 1902, and included a restaurant, ballroom, gymnasium, ladies' parlor, smoking room, and elaborate sixth-floor dining room. Around 1905, Hartman replaced the gymnasium with his own bank, the Market Exchange Bank. Hartman died in the building in 1918, and the hotel closed three years later. [2]
Howard Johnson's restaurants were franchised separately from the hotel brand beginning in 1986 but, in the years that followed, severely dwindled in number until eventually disappearing altogether. [9] The last restaurant, in Lake George, New York, closed in 2022. The line of branded supermarket frozen foods, as well as its famous ice cream, is ...
[8] [9] The restaurant building was used as the museum's gift shop. [10] In 2010, the Orient home and White Castle restaurant were featured in "White Castle on the Farm", an episode of American Pickers. [11] In that same year, the building was again sold and moved, to a private collection in Rolla, Missouri. [12] [better source needed]
The Macon Hotel was built in 1888. The building became known for hosting prominent African American jazz performers and travelers during its hotel operation. [1] The hotel was featured in The Green Book, a segregation-era guide to friendly lodging for African Americans. Twenty other Columbus properties were also included; only four of those remain.
The Seneca, formerly known as the Seneca Hotel, is a 10-story apartment complex and former hotel in the Discovery District of downtown Columbus, Ohio. The brick building was designed by architects Frank Packard and David Riebel & Sons and built in 1917, in a prominent location near Franklin County Memorial Hall , where conventions were held.