hotel florence
Hotel Florence Completes Renovations and Joins Tapestry Collection by Hilton
March 5, 2021
FLORENCE, SC – March 5, 2021 – Hotel Florence, a unique boutique hotel located in the heart of historic downtown Florence, South Carolina, is pleased to announce the completion of their interior renovations and conversion to Tapestry Collection by Hilton. Owned and operated by Raines since 2013, the property began the renovation process in October 2020. Guests of the hotel can now experience extensive room renovations, including major bathroom upgrades, new furniture, fixtures, and equipment, new carpet and paint, updated artwork, and more. The property’s existing restaurant, Victors, also received an upgrade, including new sea...
Raines Hospitality Selected to Manage The Foundry Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina
Raines | September 23, 2020
Raines, a premier hospitality management, development, and operating group based in South Carolina, is proud to announce the addition of The Foundry Hotel to its management portfolio. Asheville’s historic former steel foundry underwent extensive updates and renovations to open in 2018 as The Foundry Hotel, a Curio Collection by Hilton property. The 87-room boutique hotel offers an authentically Asheville experience complemented by Benne on Eagle, the award-winning Appalachian-inspired restaurant led by local chef and culinary pioneer John Fleer. “Asheville has become a leading destination in the Southeast and is consistently recog...
Nobody Asked Me, But… No. 221: Hotel History: Hotel Florence
Stanley Turkel | October 22, 2019
By Stanley Turkel, CMHS Hotel History: Hotel Florence The Hotel Florence is a former operating hotel located in the Pullman Historic District on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois. In 1880, the railroad pioneer George Pullman purchased a site of 3,500 acres near Lake Calumet on the Illinois Central Railroad. With demand exploding for his sleeping railroad cars. Pullman decided to build the largest factory to produce them and a company town to house his employees and their families. Pullman believed that if he built a town without saloons and agitators, his workers would be forever loyal to the Pullman creed. Pullman City ultimately...
