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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman-Biltmore_Hotels
"Bowman-Biltmore Hotels was a chain created by hotel magnate John McEntee Bowman.
The name evokes the Vanderbilt family's Biltmore Estate, whose buildings and gardens within are privately owned historical landmarks and tourist attractions in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. The name has since been adopted by other unrelated hotels. For a time, the Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corporation was a publicly traded company. "
"Arizona[edit]
The Arizona Biltmore Hotel was opened on February 23, 1929, by Warren McArthur Jr. and his brother Charles McArthur along with John Bowman. The Arizona Biltmore was co-designed by their brother the Chicago architect Albert Chase McArthur, who asked Frank Lloyd Wright to collaborate.[1]
California[edit]
The Flintridge Biltmore Hotel is located in La Cañada Flintridge, atop the San Rafael Hills, the site of the present day Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy campus, with some of the historic hotel buildings still in use. Designed by architect Myron Hunt in 1926, in the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture styles, and commissioned by owner Senator Frank Putnam Flint. The business failed as the Great Depression continued, and the hotel was closed and sold in 1931 to the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose to found the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy there.[2]
The Los Angeles Biltmore is located on Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles. When it opened in 1923 it was the largest hotel west of Chicago in the United States. It was designed by the architectural firm of Schultze & Weaver. The Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel was the "nerve center" of the 1960 Democratic National Convention; the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, the TV networks, and the candidates including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Adlai Stevenson. Room 8315 was used by the John Kennedy campaign.[3]
The Santa Barbara Biltmore is located in Santa Barbara, California, on the Pacific Coast. A masterly synthesis of the Spanish Revival, Mediterranean Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival and Moorish Revival styles of architecture and landscape architecture. "The Biltmore" opened in 1927. Four Seasons Hotels bought the Santa Barbara Biltmore in 1987. Ty Warner acquired ownership of the hotel through his Ty Warner Hotels & Resorts in 2000, with a historically sensitive major restoration and services updating following.
Connecticut[edit]
The Griswold was a seasonal resort hotel operated by Bowman Biltmore in New London, Connecticut, near Groton.[4]
Delaware[edit]
Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware, was managed by the Bowman-Biltmore Hotel company[5] and named the Du Pont Biltmore from 1927-1933.[6]
Florida[edit]
The Belleview Biltmore in Belleair, Florida, first opened in 1897 as The Belleview Hotel and was acquired by the Biltmore chain in 1920.[7]
The Miami Biltmore Hotel, opened in 1926, by Bowman and George Merrick in Coral Gables, Florida, is a National Historic Landmark. It was sold to Henry L. Doherty in 1931. It served as a hospital during World War II and as a VA Hospital and campus of the University of Miami medical school until 1968. It became a hotel again in 1987, managed by Seaway Hotels Corporation.[8] President Obama stayed at the Biltmore prior to delivering a speech at the University of Miami.[citation needed]
Georgia[edit]
The Atlanta Biltmore Hotel, designed by Schultze & Weaver, opened in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1924 at a cost of $6 million, it was organized by Coca-Cola heir William Candler, Holland Ball Judkins, and Bowman. It is today an office building.[9]"