1880S41 events · 32 opened · 6 event · 2 sold · 1 closed
1881
Sold
Hans Niels Andersen, aged 29, buys the Oriental and rebuilds it as the first luxury hotel in Siam
1881
Opened
Hotel Des Indes opens in The Hague, converted from a nobleman's residence
1882
Opened
The Villard Houses are built on Madison Avenue; the Palace hotel rises behind them in 1980
1883
Event
The first Orient Express leaves Paris for Constantinople on 4 October
1883
Opened
The Windsor opens in Melbourne, the oldest grand hotel in Australia
1884
Opened
Tigran Sarkies opens the Eastern in Penang on 15 April, aged twenty-three
1884
Opened
The Cecil opens at Simla, the summer capital of British India
1884
Closed
A fire destroys much of Al-Hamidiyah; the rebuilding under Abdul Hamid II adds the iron vault that still roofs it
1884
Opened
The Riffelalp opens above Zermatt at 2,222 metres, with Europe's highest tramway
1885
Event
Les Deux Magots becomes a café, keeping the name and the two Chinese figures
1885
Opened
Dunton is founded as a mining camp in Colorado; it reopens as a hotel in 2001
1885
Opened
The Hassler opens at the top of the Spanish Steps; the Wirth family holds it still
1886
Event
Fortnum's becomes the first shop in Britain to stock Heinz baked beans
1886
Opened
The Winter Palace opens at Luxor for travellers up the Nile
1886
Opened
The Canadian Pacific begins its chain of railway hotels across the Dominion
1887
Opened
The Cardu and Rossi building opens in May — today the Oriental's Authors' Wing
1887
Opened
The Sarkies brothers open Raffles in Singapore
1887
Opened
The Grand Hotel opens on Mackinac Island with the longest porch in the world
1888
Event
Christophersen designs a new Avenida de Mayo façade for Tortoni; its back becomes its front
1888
Opened
The Banff Springs opens, built by the Canadian Pacific Railway
1889
Opened
The Savoy opens under Richard D'Oyly Carte — Britain's first luxury hotel: electric light throughout, electric lifts, private bathrooms
1889
Event
César Ritz arrives at the Savoy in August and brings Auguste Escoffier (LHL-P-005 Auguste Escoffier) with him
1889
Event
The Eastern and the Oriental merge in Penang as the Eastern & Oriental
1889
Sold
Antoine Sella opens the Grand Hôtel du Cap as a hotel, having bought it in 1887
1889
Opened
The Dresdner Bank headquarters is built on Bebelplatz; it opens as the Hotel de Rome in 2006
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.