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Renderings for the Blues Note Hotel in Downtown Memphis. The mixed-use development campus will include 191-room hotel, 65-unit apartment building and a boutique hotel. The site is located along Dr ...
Pages in category "Hotels in South Carolina" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Charleston Place;
Pages in category "Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Built in 1905, the 14-story Tennessee Trust Building was among downtown Memphis' first "skyscrapers." The building's architects, the firm of Charles 0. Pfeil (1871–1952) and George M. Shaw (1870–1919) were noted at the time for designing buildings with ornate, classical styling and massing.
The hotel was sold to the Alsonett Hotel Group in 1953. [3] Deeply in debt by the early 1960s, it went bankrupt in 1965 and was sold in a foreclosure auction to Sheraton Hotels, becoming the Sheraton-Peabody Hotel. [5] As downtown Memphis decayed in the early 1970s, the hotel suffered financially, and the Sheraton-Peabody closed in December 1973.
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This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina, United States. The United States' National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service , and recognizes buildings, sites, structures, districts, and objects according to a list of criteria of national significance. [ 1 ]
The hotel was meticulously restored in 1996 with a $12 million National Trust for Historic Preservation award winning restoration. It reopened as The Francis Marion Hotel - A Clarion Hotel. The hotel went through a second round of renovations in 1997, costing $2 million, and it was renamed The Westin Francis Marion on June 18, 1998. [15]