William Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” For U.S. hoteliers in the first half of the twentieth century, the answer was that hotel names should be evocative. Most had unique names; hotels in this period were often associated with a local person, such as the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington, named for local restauranter and investor Louis Davenport. Some hotels were named after historical events or people, like the Hotel Patrick Henry in Roanoke, Virginia, […]

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