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THE BROWN
HOTEL |
Hot Brown
Drive
Departing
Cincinnati area: Breakfast at 8:30 AM for the hungry ones and we're planning a 9:30 AM Drivers meeting in the parking lot and we'll depart the parking lot at 09:45 AM. Please be on time! Remember, we'll be celebrating the 45th wedding anniversaries of:
We'll take a spirited drive to Louisville, stopping for lunch en-route. We will have a dinner reservation at the Thoroughbred Lounge where some of us will enjoy a Hot Brown (Click for Menu).
Arising on Sunday morning, we'll break the fast at the J. Graham's Cafe (some of us just might have another Hot Brown) and then take a drive to Madison Indiana. <Madison Website>. Gwen and Mike Ewing will be leading the drive to Madison and helping us find a place to have lunch in Madison. We can tour a winery or two, enjoy some of the curiosity shops in Madison and then enjoy a spirited drive along route 62 to come home .
This will be the first drive of the season for the Roving Roadsters. Some of us have been to the Brown Hotel in Louisville and others have not. The Brown Hotel is one of the finest restored hotels that Cheryl and I have ever had the pleasure of staying in. It has all the modern conveniences and the charm of an old stately Kentucky hotel at the start of the 1900's. |
The current list of Rovers for this event includes:
PLEASE LET
US KNOW IF YOU ARE COMING |
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Located
at the corners of Fourth and Broadway in downtown Louisville,
Kentucky, The Brown Hotel is one of Louisville's most treasured
landmarks. Built in 1923 at a cost of $4 million by J. Graham Brown,
the hotel was a magnet for many prominent guests and celebrities
during the 1920s through the 1950s. In 1971, two years after the
founder passed away, The Brown closed as a hotel and later reopened
as the Board of Education building.
In the early 1980s the building was renovated and reopened as The Brown Hotel and today this stunning 16-story property with a distinctive English Renaissance design is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Brown Hotel's ornate hand-painted plaster relief ceilings, intricately carved railings, decorative crown molding, and other classic architectural details make her one of the finest hotels in the South.
Visitors
to The Brown Hotel will find 293 elegantly appointed guest rooms and
suites, over 18,000 square feet of meeting space, a business center,
24-hour fitness center, three restaurants, and the renowned Lobby
Bar. The Brown's fine dining restaurant, The English Grill, has been
voted "Louisville's Best Restaurant." For over 80 years, The Brown
has figured prominently into the social life of Louisville and its
opulent ballroom is the site of many of the city's most elegant and
gracious social functions
