Lennox Hotel

United States historic place


Lennox Hotel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Renaissance St. Louis Suites Hotel, 2013
38°37′51″N 90°11′33″W / 38.63083°N 90.19250°W / 38.63083; -90.19250
Area	less than one acre
Built	1929 (1929)
Architect	Preston J. Bradshaw
Architectural style	Renaissance
NRHP reference No.	84002647^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 6, 1984

The Courtyard St. Louis Downtown/Convention Center is a historic hotel in downtown St. Louis, Missouri.

History

The 25-story hotel opened on September 2, 1929 as the Lennox Hotel, the tallest hotel in the city at the time. Designed by Preston J. Bradshaw in the Renaissance Revival style, the building features terra cotta faces and cornices. The hotel, along with the Hotel Statler and the Mayfair Hotel, was built as part of a commercial boom in downtown St. Louis in the 1920s. It was the last hotel built in the area before the Great Depression, another hotel did not open in downtown St. Louis until 1963. The Lennox Hotel closed after newer hotels were built in the 1970s.^[2] The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 6, 1984.^[1]

It was renovated in 2002 and reopened as the Renaissance St. Louis Suites Hotel. The hotel was foreclosed in 2009 by its bondholders after it failed to generate enough revenue to cover interest payments. It closed in November 2011. It was sold in December 2013 to Maritz, Wolff & Co., which spent $15 million on a complete renovation.^[3] It reopened on September 2, 2015 as the Courtyard St. Louis Downtown/Convention Center.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Lennox Hotel" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
^ "Maritz, Wolff buys Renaissance Suites hotel in downtown St. Louis".
^ "Hotel Lennox to RE-Open as the Courtyard by Marriott St. Louis Downtown/Convention Center Hotel".