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The origins of Sheraton Hotels date to 1933, when Harvard classmates Ernest Henderson and Robert Moore purchased the Continental Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts.. In 1937, Henderson and Moore purchased the Standard Investing Corporation and the International Equities Corporation, combining them into the Standard Equities Corporation, [4] the company through which they would run their hotels.
In 1939, Ernest Henderson bought the hotel. At the time, the building had an electric sign on the roof reading "Hotel Sheraton" which would have been too expensive to remove, so he renamed his entire chain Sheraton Hotels , after this property.
Robert Lowell Moore (12 January 1896 - 1986) was the co-founder of the Sheraton Hotels and Resorts international chain along with his college roommate Ernest Henderson. He was also the father of author Robin Moore.
Ernest Henderson wrote that it was "one of the few actual treatises of the middle ages. It is a most learned essay concerning all that went on at the bi-yearly meetings of the exchequer officials, and branches out into a description of all the sources of revenue of the English crown, and of the methods of collecting them.
Sheraton finally gained full control of the hotel in September 1955, and the McAlpin was renamed the Sheraton-McAlpin. At the time, Sheraton president Ernest Henderson announced plans to renovate the hotel for $2 million. [135] [134] Sheraton completely renovated the hotel five years later and renamed it the Sheraton-Atlantic Hotel in October 1959.
The country artist known simply as Ernest is a couple of cocktails deep on a recent afternoon in the rooftop garden of West Hollywood’s Soho House, a diamond pendant the size of a AA battery ...
Reginald Ernest Henderson (1 December 1910 – 26 November 2003) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [ 1 ] Henderson was a defender and occasional ruckman who joined Camberwell in 1931 from the Carnegie junior team.
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