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United States hotel chains have long prided themselves on having a historic hotel or two in their portfolios, but now almost all of them have at least several, already open or under reconstruction.
Marriott has been especially active. Its luxury Ritz-Carlton brand, for example, opened a hotel last October at Maison Blanche, a 101-year-old former department store on Canal Street in New Orleans. And Ritz-Carlton is building a new hotel in the Georgetown section of Washington on a site that will include an existing large brick incinerator, part of whose structure will serve as the lobby, and two 200-year-old town houses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/15/tr...earchpv=site03
Marriott has been especially active. Its luxury Ritz-Carlton brand, for example, opened a hotel last October at Maison Blanche, a 101-year-old former department store on Canal Street in New Orleans. And Ritz-Carlton is building a new hotel in the Georgetown section of Washington on a site that will include an existing large brick incinerator, part of whose structure will serve as the lobby, and two 200-year-old town houses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/15/tr...earchpv=site03