Belleview Inn | Boutique Design
Gold Key – Lobby Midscale The Highlights: The biggest challenge of renovating an 1897 property? Preserving the hotel’s unique architectural details and valuable building materials—but that means some heavy lifting. The owner decided to restore a 38,000-square-foot portion of the original building (the lobby), an effort that involved rotating the 1,750-ton hotel 90 degrees and relocating it 230 feet using a computer-steered process. Remaining sections were deconstructed piece by piece to salvage wood, doors, doorknobs, windows, Tiffany glass, and bricks, which were repurposed into the ...