Lancaster Arts Hotel

The Lancaster Arts Hotel is a hotel in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, housed in a historic tobacco warehouse.

Lancaster Arts Hotel
Location within Pennsylvania
General information
Address300 Harriburg Avenue
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°2′49″N 76°18′44″W
Opening2006 (2006)
Technical details
Floor count3 12
Other information
Number of rooms63
Website
lancasterartshotel.com
Rosenbaum Tobacco Warehouse
Builtc.1881
Part ofHarrisburg Avenue Tobacco Historic District (ID90001393[1])
Designated CPSeptember 21, 1990

Originally, the hotel site was built in the 1880s as a tobacco warehouse and was used that way until 1945.[2] It then was used by a paper and twine business as well as an electronics business before being transformed into the hotel.[3] The hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the Harrisburg Avenue Tobacco Historic District. Lancaster Arts Hotel is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.[4]

The hotel also has an art gallery[5] featuring rotating exhibitions by regional artists. Included in the gallery is a room paying homage to Lancaster sculptor Blanche Nevin[6] whose sculpture of Peter Muhlenberg is housed in the National Statuary Hall Collection at the U.S. Capitol Building. Another room features the work of Watercolor Painter Charles Demuth. Other artists who have been exhibited at the hotel include Warren Rohrer[7] and David Brumbach.[8]

Further reading

  • Becker, Gloria O (February 17, 1990). "Harrisburg Avenue Tobacco Historic District" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved August 12, 2011.

References

Hotel entrance
  1. "NPS Focus". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
  2. U.S. Dept. of Interior National Historic Places
  3. Lancaster Arts Hotel Website
  4. "Lancaster Arts Hotel, a Historic Hotels of America member". Historic Hotels of America. Retrieved January 28, 2014. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. Artshotel Gallery
  6. AskArt.com
  7. Biographical Background
  8. AskArt.com
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