The Grand Lady of Fourth Avenue: Portland's Historic Multnomah Hotel Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a native of Portland. This book provides great photographs and a historical perspective of an important landmark hotel. I did find a few errors in the section on famous guests that have stayed at the hotel. The book says Elvis Presley did not return to Portland after his 1957 performance at Civic Stadium, when he stayed at the hotel, but Elvis returned to Portland three more times: November 11, 1970, April 27, 1973 and November 26, 1976 and he performed at the Memorial Coliseum each time. Also, Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog were hits in 1956, not 1955 as the book infers.

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The Multnomah played host to the famous, the powerful, and thousands of ordinary men and women conventioneers.Welcoming generations of visitors with gracious hospitality, the Multnomah Hotel became known as the "Grand Lady of Fourth Avenue." Meticulously researched, this volume is illustrated with many historical photographs.Illustrated.Appendix.

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Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion Review

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(More customer reviews)This book represents a good historic insight to hotels and their development in the worlds regions. As an hotel industry professional, I find the details of yesteryear a delight recorded in this well planned and illustrated volume. The book shows a slight bias toward the English tradition but as Elaine has clearly researched some of Englands older towns and cities, it is charming to see how grand the home market was. The selection of the international hotels misses many of those hotels that I would consider of the Grand genre but that gives Elaine a reason to write the next volume.

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Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age: The Architecture of Schultze & Weaver Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a very enjoyable look at the grand hotels built between World War I and the Depression, filled with wonderful photos, plans, and other descriptive details from a very expansive and optimistic era. Highly recommended for architecture buffs.

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The Breakers, the Waldorf, the Biltmore, the Sherry, the Pierre-these landmark hotels are synonymous with grand luxury and style. When they were built, in the 1920s, their refined elegance and grandeur set the bar for hotels and resorts the world over. Responsible for creating these and countless other hotels throughout the United States, were the partners of a single architectural firm: Schultze & Weaver. Together, this duo-an architect and an engineer-virtually invented the glamorous lifestyle made famous in films like Grand Hotel. Catering to the social elite of which they were themselves a part, Schultze & Weaver synthesized the Old World style of Renaissance Italy, Moorish Spain, and Georgian England with all of the modern amenities that made hotel living luxurious. This book presents portfolios of fifteen of the firm's most spectacular hotels, culminating in the Art Moderne masterpiece of the Waldorf-Astoria. Over two hundred period photographs and hand-colored architectural renderings chart the ascent of the American hotel in all its glory and glamour, before the Great Depression forever changed the lifestyles of America's rich and famous. Essays address the cultural and technological developments that underpin the creation of resort and residential hotels, including the elemental role played by Schultze & Weaver. This book is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami, held in celebration of their tenth anniversary.

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