Historical Hotels USA

HISTORIC Hotels of America is the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for recognizing and celebrating the finest Historic Hotels. Historic Hotels of America has more than 300 historic hotels that have all faithfully maintained their authenticity, sense of place, and architectural integrity in the United States of America, including 46 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.

Hotels range in age from 246 years to 52 years old and the oldest dates back to 1771. Seven of the 20 historic hotels are listed in the National Register of Historic Places and one has been designated by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark.

The 20 historic hotels inducted in 2017 represent independent hotels, brands, and collections from across the U.S. from 13 different states:

• Publick House Historic Inn* (1771) Sturbridge, Massachusetts
• Inn at Willow Grove* (1778) Orange, Virginia
• The Cotton Sail Hotel (1852) Savannah, Georgia
• The Sherman (1852) Batesville, Indiana
• Penn Wells Hotel (1869) Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
• Antrim 1844* (1844) Taneytown, Maryland
• Hotel del Coronado** (1888) Coronado, California
• Hyatt at the Bellevue* (1904) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Utica (1912) Utica, New York
• The Virginian Lynchburg, Curio Collection by Hilton (1913) Lynchburg, Virginia
• Water’s Edge Resort and Spa (1920s) Westbrook, Connecticut
• Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows, Santa Monica (1921) Santa Monica, California
• Hotel Skyler Syracuse, Tapestry Collection by Hilton (1922) Syracuse, New York
• Fairmont Olympic* (1924) Seattle, Washington
• Sofitel Washington D.C. Lafayette Square (1925) Washington, D.C.
• The Queensbury Hotel (1926) Glens Falls, New York
• Hotel Saranac, Curio Collection by Hilton (1927) Saranac Lake, New York
• The Statler (1956) Dallas, Texas
• Alpenhof Lodge* (1965) Teton Village, Wyoming
• The Graham Georgetown (1965) Washington, D.C.

Six of the historic hotels are adaptive reuse projects that have involved converting some or all of a historic building to a hotel. Originally, these buildings were built for another purpose in their history. Examples include buildings originally built as a historic synagogue, a cotton warehouse, a furniture factory, office building, a manor house and school house.

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