Concentrated in New York (24), Los Angeles (4), Montana (3), Virginia (3), Aspen (2), Chicago (2).
ENTRIES200
Blackberry Farm & Blackberry Mountain · Tennessee
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Robert A. M. Stern
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CONTROL8 of these entries have a recorded holder
Who owns and operates them, from the Capital section.
Bagatelle Group · founders and owners · operator
Penrod family / Nikki Beach · founders and owners · owner
Major Food Group · owner · operator
Mohari Hospitality · owner from 2023 · investor
Tao Group Hospitality · operator · operator
The Dinex Group · owner · operator
Nobu Hospitality · owner · operator
Maguy Le Coze & Eric Ripert · owners · owner
Moody family · the hotels, 1931 · investor
CHRONOLOGY215 dated events
Tremont House opens in Boston on 16 October, by Isaiah Rogers — indoor plumbing, indoor baths and lavatories, a reception area, locked single rooms, free soap and bellboys. The specification of the modern hotel, sixty years before the Savoy
The Palace opens in San Francisco; it is rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and fire
The Villard Houses are built on Madison Avenue; the Palace hotel rises behind them in 1980
Dunton is founded as a mining camp in Colorado; it reopens as a hotel in 2001
The Grand Hotel opens on Mackinac Island with the longest porch in the world
The Hotel del Coronado opens on the beach south of San Diego
Hotel Jerome opens at Aspen during the silver boom
San Ysidro Ranch opens at Montecito; Kennedy honeymoons there and Olivier marries Leigh there
The Waldorf opens on Fifth Avenue; the Astoria joins it in 1897 — the tall-building hotel, thirteen and sixteen floors
Tremont House razed
Castle Hot Springs opens in Arizona, the state's first resort, reached by stagecoach
The Breakers opens at Palm Beach, built by Henry Flagler beside his railway
John Jacob Astor IV opens the taller Astoria next door; Peacock Alley joins them
The Moana opens at Waikiki, the first hotel on the beach
Statler builds a temporary 2,100-room hotel of wood at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition and is one of the few vendors to make a profit
The Mount Washington opens in the White Mountains
The St. Regis opens on Fifth Avenue, built by John Jacob Astor IV
Statler builds the Inside Inn at the St Louis exposition — 2,257 rooms, the largest hotel in the world, dismantled and sold for scrap afterwards
The Plaza opens on Fifth Avenue at Central Park
The Fairmont opens in San Francisco, a year after the earthquake
Pike Place Market opens in Seattle as a revolt against the middlemen raising food prices — farmers selling direct
Ellsworth Statler opens the Buffalo Statler on 18 January — a thousand rooms, a private bath in every one, and the first hotel chain
The Beverly Hills Hotel opens before the city around it exists
Keswick Hall is built in Virginia; it becomes a hotel in 1993
The Greenbrier's present hotel opens at White Sulphur Springs
Statler buys the operating lease of the unbuilt Hotel Pennsylvania on 11 December for $1m a year
Statler pays $1m a year on 11 December for the operating lease of a hotel the Pennsylvania Railroad is building opposite its own station
Kirk Kerkorian is born in Fresno, California, on 6 June
Conrad Hilton buys the Mobley in Cisco, Texas, for $40,000 after failing to buy a bank
The Hotel Pennsylvania opens on 25 January with 2,200 rooms, each with a bath — the largest hotel in the world, built by a railway and linked to its station by a tunnel
Jay Arthur Pritzker is born in Chicago on 26 August
Statler buys an entire block on Niagara Square, betting Buffalo's civic centre will move there, and buys and closes his main rival to guarantee the trade
The Dallas Hilton opens — the first hotel to carry the Hilton name
The Surrey opens on the Upper East Side
The Carlyle opens on Madison Avenue
J. Willard and Alice Marriott open a nine-seat root beer stand in Washington in May
The Cloister opens at Sea Island, built by Howard Coffin and designed by Addison Mizner
The Hay-Adams opens on Lafayette Square facing the White House
The Chateau Marmont opens on Sunset Boulevard, modelled on a Loire château
Both Astor hotels are demolished for the Empire State Building
William Avery Rockefeller II builds Camp Wonundra on Saranac Lake; it opens as The Point in 1980
The Pierre opens on Fifth Avenue at Central Park
The Waldorf Astoria opens on Park Avenue on 1 October — the largest and tallest hotel in the world
The Bel-Air opens in a Los Angeles canyon around a stream and swans
Loews is founded by the Tisch brothers
Hilton Hotels Corporation is formed; it lists on the New York Stock Exchange the following year
Roy Kelley opens his first Waikiki hotel; Outrigger grows from it
Bemelmans Bar opens at the Carlyle; Ludwig Bemelmans paints the murals for a year's board
Conrad Hilton forms Hilton International
Statler Hotels buys the Hotel Pennsylvania outright from the Pennsylvania Railroad and renames it the Hotel Statler
Conrad Hilton acquires the Waldorf Astoria
Conrad Hilton acquires the Waldorf Astoria; the brand becomes a Hilton line
The Caribe Hilton opens in San Juan — the first Hilton outside the continental United States
Marriott goes public at $10.25 a share; the offering sells out in two hours
The Fontainebleau opens at Miami Beach, designed by Morris Lapidus
Hilton buys the Statler chain for $111m — then the largest real-estate transaction on record
Hilton buys the Statler chain for $111m — the largest real-estate transaction on record at the time
Isadore Sharp works construction summers for his father in Toronto; Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's franchise
Kerkorian makes his first gaming investment, a stake in the Dunes Hotel
The Waldorf Astoria loses the height record to Moscow's Hotel Ukraina after twenty-six years
The Twin Bridges Motor Hotel opens in Arlington in January — Marriott's first hotel, thirty years after the root beer stand
The Twin Bridges Motor Hotel opens — Marriott's first
Jay Pritzker sees the Hyatt House beside Los Angeles International Airport in August and buys it; the family begins operating on 24 September
Omni's forerunner Dunfey Hotels begins in New Hampshire
Donald N. Pritzker takes over management of the Hyatt hotel business
Isadore Sharp opens the Four Seasons Motor Hotel on Jarvis Street, Toronto — 125 rooms on an unfashionable street
Isadore Sharp opens the Four Seasons Motor Hotel in Toronto
Meadowood opens in the Napa Valley
NetJets pioneers fractional aircraft ownership as Executive Jet Aviation
Hyatt Regency Atlanta opens as the first Hyatt Regency; John Portman’s 22-storey atrium establishes a new hotel typology
Twelve American hoteliers form Preferred Hotels to compete with the chains
Kerkorian sells Trans International Airlines to Transamerica; construction of the International begins
The International Hotel opens in Las Vegas with about 1,500 rooms at a cost of $55m — then the largest hotel in the world; Barbra Streisand headlines the opening, Elvis Presley follows
Hyatt Regency Hong Kong becomes Hyatt’s first hotel outside the United States
Kerkorian sells the International to Hilton; it becomes the Las Vegas Hilton
Walt Disney World opens in Florida with the Contemporary and the Polynesian
The first Starbucks opens in Pike Place Market
Donald Pritzker dies at 39, after thirteen years in which Hyatt grew to 26 hotels
The original MGM Grand opens with 2,084 rooms at a cost of $107m — again the largest hotel in the world
Sandy and Kreis Beall open Blackberry Farm in the Tennessee foothills
Studio 54 opens at 254 West 54th Street on 26 April
The Paradise Garage opens at 84 King Street with Larry Levan resident
Patrick O'Connell and Reinhardt Lynch open The Inn at Little Washington in a converted garage
Les Bains Douches opens in the 1885 Guerbois baths, interiors by Philippe Starck
Adam Tihany opens his New York design studio
Jay and Cindy Pritzker establish the Pritzker Architecture Prize through the Hyatt Foundation
The first Grand Hyatt opens in Hong Kong ⚑ the brand is formalised in 1980
Grand Hyatt New York and Park Hyatt Chicago open, adding two brands to the Hyatt portfolio
Eighty-five people die in the fire at the original MGM Grand on 21 November; the disaster exposes critical weaknesses in hotel fire and smoke protection
Park Hyatt launches in Chicago as Hyatt's luxury line
TCS World Travel begins private-jet expeditions
Jason Pomeranc's Thompson Hotels begin in New York
Studio 54 closes on 2 February after thirty-three months; Rubell and Schrager go to prison
George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg found Yabu Pushelberg in Toronto
Bob Harmon and Claude Rouas open Auberge du Soleil as a restaurant; cottages follow in 1985
Bill Kimpton opens the Clarion Bedford in San Francisco — the American boutique hotel
Sweeping reform of fire codes and retrofitting after the MGM Grand fire changes life safety in casino hotels
Stein Eriksen Lodge opens at Deer Valley under the Olympic champion's name
Wolfgang Puck opens Spago on the Sunset Strip
Horst Schulze and William B. Johnson found the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell open Morgans in New York — the boutique hotel begins
Triple Creek Ranch opens in the Bitterroot valley, Montana
Conrad Hotels launches as Hilton's international luxury brand
Cal-a-Vie opens in California, an early destination spa built as a Provençal village
The original MGM Grand hotels in Las Vegas and Reno are sold to Bally’s; MGM Grand, Inc. is founded as the corporate predecessor of the present company
Maguy and Gilbert Le Coze bring Le Bernardin to New York
Seabourn is founded and launches Seabourn Pride
The Paradise Garage closes
Hyatt Gold Passport launches, extending the platform beyond individual properties
The Little Nell opens at the base of Aspen Mountain
André Balazs buys the Chateau Marmont
Universal Studios Florida opens; the resort's first hotel follows in 1999
Post Ranch Inn opens on the Big Sur cliffs, built by Mickey Muennig with no tree felled
Twin Farms opens in Vermont, on the farm Sinclair Lewis bought for Dorothy Thompson in 1928
Kirk Kerkorian opens the MGM Grand — the largest hotel in the world at the time
The present MGM Grand opens with about 5,000 rooms — the third Kerkorian development to open as the largest hotel in the world
Daniel Boulud opens DANIEL, having left Le Cirque in 1992
Nobu opens in Tribeca — the restaurant that became a hotel brand
Sternlicht's Starwood Capital acquires the Westin and Sheraton platforms
Nobu opens in New York — Matsuhisa, De Niro and Teper
Ian Schrager and Philippe Starck open the Delano in Miami Beach
Miraval opens in the Arizona desert as a destination wellness resort
Ian Schrager and André Balazs shape the boutique hotel through Morgans and Chateau Marmont
Schrager and Starck open the Mondrian on Sunset Boulevard
The Ritz-Carlton Bali opens at Jimbaran, Asia's first Ritz-Carlton, with Horst Schulze on the opening team
Peter Remedios founds Remedios Studio in Long Beach
Jean-Georges Vongerichten opens Jean-Georges at Central Park West
The Ritz-Carlton Residences launch, taking branded living to scale
Amangani opens above Jackson Hole — the first Aman in the Americas
Mark Harmon forms Auberge Resorts as a management platform
Jack Penrod opens Nikki Beach in Miami
Starwood buys ITT Sheraton, taking St. Regis, The Luxury Collection and Westin
Viceroy takes shape in California from the Kor Group
Barry Sternlicht launches W Hotels — lifestyle inside a hotel corporation
Jack Penrod takes Nikki Beach onto the sand at Miami Beach
Alex Calderwood opens the first Ace Hotel in Seattle
André Balazs opens The Standard on Sunset Boulevard
Jay Pritzker dies in Chicago on 23 January
White Elephant opens on Nantucket harbour
The Peninsula opens in Chicago, the group's first house in the American interior
Jason Pomeranc's Sixty group opens 60 Thompson in New York
The Inn at Dos Brisas opens in Texas on a working organic farm
Alan Fuerstman founds Montage Hotels & Resorts
Hotel Indigo opens its first house in Atlanta
The Resort at Paws Up opens on 37,000 acres in Montana — glamping enters American luxury
Core Club opens in New York as a members' club without a dress code or a golf course
AMResorts launches Secrets for adults-only all-inclusive resorts
Steve Wynn opens Wynn Las Vegas, his first house under his own name
Horst Schulze founds Capella the day after retiring
Core: Club opens at 66 East 55th Street, New York
St. Regis Residences launch
Beverly and Dereck Joubert found Great Plains Conservation
Andaz launches in Liverpool Street, London
Aqua Expeditions launches river cruising on the Peruvian Amazon
Robert De Niro opens the Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca
Ian Schrager and Marriott launch EDITION
SLS opens in Beverly Hills under sbe
Trump International opens its Las Vegas tower
Zarafa Camp opens in the Selinda, Botswana
Bagatelle opens in the Meatpacking District
Casa Tua opens as a members' club and hotel in Miami Beach
Amangiri opens in the Utah desert, built into the rock by Wendell Burnette, Rick Joy and Marwan Al-Sayed
Primland opens on 12,000 acres of the Blue Ridge, developed by Didier Primat
CityCenter opens as a record-setting resort, residential and retail complex
The hotel drops the Ritz-Carlton name on 1 April and reopens as AYANA under Horst Schulze's West Paces Hotel Group
The Ranch at Rock Creek opens on 6,600 acres in Montana
Brush Creek Ranch opens in Wyoming on a working cattle ranch
Marriott launches Autograph Collection for independent houses
Ritz-Carlton Reserve opens its first house, Phulay Bay in Krabi
The Cosmopolitan opens on the Strip
Mara Plains opens in Kenya under Great Plains
Montage Residences launch
Auberge Residences launch
Magee Homestead opens beside Brush Creek as an adults-only ranch
Major Food Group founded
Andrew Zobler and Sydell open the first NoMad, in a Broadway building
NeueHouse opens in New York, a workspace built as a members' club
The first Nobu Hotel opens at Caesars Palace
The Battery opens in San Francisco
First Nobu Hotel opens at Caesars Palace
The LINE opens in Koreatown, Los Angeles
Barry Sternlicht opens the first 1 Hotel at South Beach
Marriott opens a new Ritz-Carlton Bali at Nusa Dua, six years after losing the original
Marriott launches Tribute Portfolio for independent hotels
Spa de La Mer opens at the Baccarat Hotel New York — La Mer's first spa anywhere
Kirk Kerkorian dies in Beverly Hills on 15 June, aged 98
Waldorf Astoria Residences launch
Michael Fuerstman opens the first Pendry in San Diego
Hyatt launches The Unbound Collection
Ralph Lauren opens the first Ralph's Coffee above the Fifth Avenue store
Dan Friedkin buys Auberge Resorts Collection
Habitas opens at Tulum, built to be dismantled without trace
Ian Schrager opens PUBLIC on the Lower East Side
Brian De Lowe and Brad Korzen open the first Proper in San Francisco
Nobu Residences are announced in Toronto — the restaurant brand becomes a home
Sheldon Chalet opens on a nunatak inside Denali, reached only by ski plane
21c Museum Hotel opens in Bentonville — a contemporary art museum with rooms, in a town of 50,000
LXR Hotels & Resorts launches as Hilton's collection of independents
Sharan Pasricha's Ennismore takes The Hoxton and Gleneagles into one group
Grace Hotels passes to Auberge Resorts Collection for branding and management; Grace Cafayate is excluded and goes independent
Sensei Lānai opens on Larry Ellison's island, a Four Seasons house given over to wellbeing
The Lodge at Blue Sky opens on a Utah ranch that rehabilitates rescued horses
Equinox opens its first hotel at Hudson Yards, built around sleep and training
Impression by Secrets launches as a resort-within-a-resort
The Ritz-Carlton announces a Private Jet programme
Hilton launches Signia as its meetings-led luxury line
Sebastien Silvestri becomes the first chief executive of the Dinex Group
Hyatt launches Destination by Hyatt from the Two Roads acquisition
Resorts World opens on the Las Vegas Strip, the first new resort there in a decade
Aman New York opens in the Crown Building on Fifth Avenue
The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection sails its first voyage aboard Evrima after four years of delay
Core: moves to 711 Fifth Avenue in September — 60,000 sq ft, lobby by Peter Marino
Mohari buys Tao Group for £441m
The Waldorf Astoria reopens after eight years with 375 rooms of its original 1,416
Jack Penrod dies on 3 February, aged 85
Notes on the series. Hotel-native institutions enter as cross-references inside the article of the house that holds them, not as separate codes — a bar or spa receives its own entry only when it has become a name in its own right. Seasonal and fashion collaborations are recorded as dated lines within a house, never as entries. Residential clinics and estates, however wellness-led, belong to the main register: they sell nights. Entries carry permanent LHL-S codes once published; drafts await verification by two independent sources. · Published by LVXVRY under Editorial Manifesto LHL-001 v1.6.