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Historic Hotels of America

  • GraylynIn 1925, spouses Nathalie Lyons Gray and Bowman Gray Sr. purchased the 87-acre estate from R. J. Reynolds with the plan of building "the home of their dreams.
  • DuPont BuildingThe DuPont Building occupies the entire block bound by 10th, 11th, Orange, and Market streets in Wilmington, Delaware. It stands as one of the first…
  • Claremont Hotel & SpaThe site began as a large wooden home called a castle, built by William Butler Thornburgh around 1870. This early settler from Jefferson County, West…
  • Skirvin Hilton HotelThe Skirvin Hotel opened on the 26th of September 1911 with 224 rooms in a ten-story two-winged tower. William Balser "Bill" Skirvin built the structure to…