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Jan 11, 2008 | 12:56 pm

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USirritated

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Originally Posted by mgreg

Rarely does Marriott have a hotel that's an architectural gem historically, while Starwood and Intercontinental have some classy, historic properties. The cookie cutter mentality of Marriott's has advantages and disadvantages -
mostly my preference is loyalty to other hotel groups.

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Originally Posted by mgreg

Thank you for that informative posting, USirritated - my error in overlooking the hotels you mention. Now when I see the many uniform Marriott properties, I'll remember your posting. Just seemed other hotel chains have more interestingly beautiful properties. In any case, there's something positive to be acknowledged about a good uniform product - guess that's why McDonald's and Starbucks, in part, are so popular.
Thanks for taking time to provide the info. It's what helps make FT compelling reading.

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Originally Posted by dayone

None of the hotels listed was built as a Marriott-branded hotel.

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Originally Posted by ExCrew

In fairness, Marriott didn't build it's first hotel until 1957.

Yes, I would say that anyone that travels extensively, and is a member of this forum on FT is aware of that, and I never stated that any of them were built as Marriotts or Renaissance Hotels, but that was not the issue raised. However, as long as we are on the subject, Hilton was founded in 1919, Hyatt in 1957, Sheraton in 1937, and Weston in 1930. With the possible exception of Hilton, I do not believe you will find much, if any, architecturally historically significant hotels actually built by the chain that now owns/operates/brands/franchises/whatevers them, unless you consider a hotel being the first of something, such as Hilton's first international hotel built in Warsaw, or something like that, which would not necessarily make it architecturally significant anyway. The point was discussing hotels, in the original words of mgreg [which are] "an architectural gem historically."

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Originally Posted by ohmark

The Renaissance Vinoy was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinoy_Park_Hotel

There are FT people here who might mention one of the oldest continuously located famous luxury hotels in the United States, the Palmer House Hilton was not built as a Hilton, was it? No, of course not! It was not bought by Hilton until 1945, by which time it was on its' third building on the same location (1871, then 1875, and present building 1925).