1890S56 events · 42 opened · 8 event · 2 sold · 2 awarded · 2 closed
1890
Sold
Sir Donald Currie of the Union-Castle line buys the Cape Town land to build a hotel for his own passengers
1890
Opened
Chateau Lake Louise opens as a one-storey chalet, built by the Canadian Pacific
1890
Opened
The Imperial Hotel opens in Tokyo; Frank Lloyd Wright's building follows in 1923
1890
Opened
The Imperial Hotel opens in Tokyo; Frank Lloyd Wright's building follows in 1923
1892
Event
Louis Thomas Leonowens, son of Anna Leonowens, becomes proprietor of the Oriental
1892
Opened
Pera Palace opens in Constantinople for passengers off the Orient Express
1892
Opened
Villa Feltrinelli is built at Gargnano; Mussolini is held there in 1943
1892
Opened
Anna Sacher takes the hotel after her husband's death and runs it for thirty-eight years
1892
Opened
The Saint James is built in Paris as a foundation for scholars; it becomes a hotel in 1986
1893
Awarded
The Waldorf opens on Fifth Avenue; the Astoria joins it in 1897 — the tall-building hotel, thirteen and sixteen floors
1893
Opened
The American Bar opens at the Savoy — the oldest surviving cocktail bar in Britain
1893
Opened
The Caruso opens at Ravello in the eleventh-century Palazzo d'Afflitto
1893
Opened
Schloss Friedrichshof is completed for Empress Victoria at Kronberg
1893
Opened
San Ysidro Ranch opens at Montecito; Kennedy honeymoons there and Olivier marries Leigh there
1894
Opened
Ritz opens Le Grand-Hôtel in Rome on 11 January — the first hotel in the world with a private bathroom in every room
1894
Opened
César Ritz opens Le Grand-Hôtel in Rome on 11 January — reportedly the first hotel with a private bathroom in every room
1894
Opened
Falaknuma is completed at Hyderabad and later passes to the Nizam
1894
Closed
An earthquake collapses much of the Grand Bazaar; the rebuilding changes its architecture permanently
1894
Opened
Villa Rothschild is built at Königstein for Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild
1894
Opened
The New York Palace opens in Budapest as an insurance building with the Café New York below
1894
Opened
Santo Mauro is built in Madrid for the Duke of Santo Mauro; it becomes a hotel in 1991
1896
Event
Ritz and Escoffier form the Ritz Hotel Development Company while still employed by the Savoy
1896
Opened
Caspar Badrutt opens Badrutt's Palace in St. Moritz on 29 July, architects Chiodera and Tschudi
1896
Opened
The Breakers opens at Palm Beach, built by Henry Flagler beside his railway
1896
Opened
Castle Hot Springs opens in Arizona, the state's first resort, reached by stagecoach
1896
Opened
The Hermitage opens at Monte-Carlo, its winter garden by Gustave Eiffel
1897
Sold
Ritz and Escoffier buy the Hôtel de Gramont and Hôtel Crozat on the Place Vendôme
1897
Awarded
John Jacob Astor IV opens the taller Astoria next door; Peacock Alley joins them
1897
Opened
The Hotelbetriebs-Aktiengesellschaft is founded in Berlin; Kempinski takes its name in 1953
1897
Opened
The Volkhardt family takes the Bayerischer Hof in Munich
1897
Opened
The Nagycsarnok opens in Budapest on 15 March, commissioned by the mayor and built by Samu Pecz to replace the open markets — and is attacked at once because prices rose
1897
Opened
Friedrich Haerlin buys the Hamburg house that becomes the Vier Jahreszeiten
1897
Opened
The Amsterdam bank building opens; it becomes the Sweelinck conservatory and then the Conservatorium hotel in 2011
1898
Event
Arthur Million expands Le Meurice; a stray greyhound becomes the house emblem
1898
Opened
The Balchug opens in Moscow facing the Kremlin across the river
1899
Opened
The Raffles main building opens on 18 November with 102 rooms and a 500-seat dining salon
1899
Opened
The Mount Nelson opens on 6 March — the first hotel in South Africa with hot and cold running water
1899
Event
The Mount Nelson becomes the unofficial British headquarters of the Second Boer War; Churchill reports from it
1899
Opened
The Old Cataract opens at Aswan for Thomas Cook's Nile passengers
1899
Opened
Louis Fouquet opens a coachman's bar at the Champs-Élysées; the hotel follows 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.