1950S61 events · 39 opened · 9 sold · 8 event · 3 awarded · 1 invented · 1 died
1950
Opened
Gracie Fields builds La Canzone del Mare on a former fort at Marina Piccola, with a pool cut in the shape of Capri
1951
Event
Charles Forte is principal caterer at the Festival of Britain, then takes London Airport
1951
Opened
Lucien Barrière takes the family casino business after François André
1952
Opened
Beachcomber opens the Park Hotel at Curepipe — the first hotel company in Mauritius
1953
Sold
Marriott goes public at $10.25 a share; the offering sells out in two hours
1953
Event
Paul Roux lies dying; Titine tells Picasso the house owns no work of his and returns with three paintings
1953
Opened
Le Sirenuse opens at Positano, converted from the Sersale family's summer house
1953
Opened
Rémy de Haenen builds Eden Rock on the rock at St Jean, St Barths
1953
Opened
Round Hill opens in Jamaica, its cottages owned by Astaire, Kennedy and Hepburn
1953
Opened
Rudolf-August Oetker buys the Brenners Park-Hotel at Baden-Baden
1953
Opened
Franco Sersale converts the family's Positano summer house into Le Sirenuse
1953
Opened
La Chèvre d'Or opens at Èze in the medieval village above the sea
1954
Opened
Jacques Courtin-Clarins opens an institute at 35 rue Tronchet — a spa that became a cosmetics house
1954
Event
Marcel and Nelly Tilloy found Les Relais de Campagne on 12 May at Le Chapon Fin, Thoissey, with eight houses
1954
Opened
Alfonso von Hohenlohe opens the Marbella Club — the aristocratic house party as a hotel
1954
Sold
Hilton buys the Statler chain for $111m — then the largest real-estate transaction on record
1954
Sold
Hilton buys the Statler chain for $111m — the largest real-estate transaction on record at the time
1954
Opened
Cheval Blanc is classified Premier Grand Cru Classé A in the first Saint-Émilion classification
1954
Opened
Alfonso von Hohenlohe opens the Marbella Club and invents the Costa del Sol season
1955
Opened
Isadore Sharp works construction summers for his father in Toronto; Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's franchise
1955
Sold
Kerkorian makes his first gaming investment, a stake in the Dunes Hotel
1956
Awarded
Troisgros takes its first Michelin star
1956
Event
Vadim shoots And God Created Woman with Bardot; Saint-Tropez becomes a destination
no register entry
1956
Opened
Giuseppe Cipriani begins the Hotel Cipriani on the Giudecca, financed by three Guinness sisters
1956
Awarded
Adrian Zecha joins Time's Tokyo bureau, where the ryokan enters his idea of a hotel
1957
Sold
Jay Pritzker buys the Hyatt House motel by Los Angeles airport — the first hotel of the group
no register entry
1957
Event
The Waldorf Astoria loses the height record to Moscow's Hotel Ukraina after twenty-six years
1957
Opened
The Twin Bridges Motor Hotel opens in Arlington in January — Marriott's first hotel, thirty years after the root beer stand
1957
Opened
The Earl of Warwick founds the Eagle Club on the Wasserngrat above Gstaad
1957
Opened
The Twin Bridges Motor Hotel opens — Marriott's first
1957
Opened
Jeanne Augier inherits the Negresco and holds it for sixty-two years
1957
Opened
The Cantinetta Antinori opens in the family palazzo in Florence
1957
Opened
The Falkensteiner family opens its first Austrian pension
1957
Opened
The Amigo opens in Brussels beside the Grand-Place, in a former prison
1957
Sold
Jay Pritzker sees the Hyatt House beside Los Angeles International Airport in August and buys it; the family begins operating on 24 September
1958
Died
Harry MacElhone dies; most of the bar's cocktail claims date from after this
1958
Event
Guests arrive at the Hotel Cipriani two years after work began on the Giudecca
1958
Opened
Gravetye Manor opens as a hotel in William Robinson's Elizabethan house and garden
1958
Opened
The Andreadis family opens the Astir Palace at Vouliagmeni
1958
Opened
The Astir Palace opens at Vouliagmeni; Four Seasons takes it in 2019
1958
Awarded
Michel Guérard receives the title Meilleur Ouvrier de France in pastry
1959
Opened
Charles Forte opens Britain's first full motorway service station at Newport Pagnell
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.