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The Jefferson is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. [6] On site is "Lemaire", a restaurant named after Etienne Lemaire, who served as maitre d'hotel to Thomas Jefferson from 1794 through the end of his presidency.
Always eager to improve Richmond, Ginter hired famed architects Carrère and Hastings in 1892 to design a world-class hotel known as the Jefferson. An estimated 5 to 10 million dollars was invested in the realization of the hotel before it opened on October 31, 1895. [26] It was immediately praised as one of the finest hotels in the country.
400-800 Jefferson Davis Highway 37°30′31″N 77°26′52″W / 37.508611°N 77.447778°W / 37.508611; -77.447778 ( American Tobacco Company, South Richmond Complex Historic 5
The home was built from 1888 to 1892 for Ginter, a cigarette magnate and philanthropist who developed an area of Richmond's north side and built the Jefferson Hotel. Harvey L. Page and William Winthrop Kent were brought in from Washington, D.C. to design the home. It is three and one half stories high and includes a polygonal three-story tower ...
The street is home to several historic landmarks, including the Richmond home of Robert E. Lee, Masons’ Hall and the Jefferson Hotel. The Jefferson Hotel opened in 1895, is one of 27 hotels in the United States to have both Mobil Five Star and AAA Five Diamond ratings, and has hosted numerous presidents, writers, and celebrities. [2]
Hotel Jefferson (St. Louis, Missouri), NRHP-listed; Jefferson Hotel (Jefferson, Texas), asserted to have been built in 1851, subject of a My Ghost Story episode (and if it is the hotel known as "Excelsior House", is NRHP-listed as an element of Jefferson Historic District (Jefferson, Texas)) Jefferson Hotel (Richmond, Virginia), NRHP-listed ...