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Weekend in Rhode Island, part 3
Our hotel in Providence deserves its own post. We stayed at Graduate by Hilton, which is in a historic hotel the locals still refer to as The Biltmore. The Biltmore marquee is still on the roofline of the building.
The Graduate hotels are located near various universities, and this location was themed around Brown University, though Johnson & Wales and RISD are all in the same neighborhood.
Pics 1-6 are of the hotel's common areas. The remainder of the pictures are of our room. We think all the pictures of people on the walls are of former Brown students, like Lois Lowry, Ted Turner, JFK Jr, Laura Linney and David Bynre (obscured by the glare), Andre Leon Talley. The Heisman Trophy was named for a Brown alumnus.
The teddy bear lamp is a nod to the "Untitled (Lamp/Bear)" sculpture that lived on the Brown campus at the time the hotel was remodeled. (I saw the yellow version of the same sculpture in the airport layover in Doha, Qatar last year.)
The bookshelf wallpaper is filled with Rhode Island specific titles, most of them jokes, of which my favorite is Big Trouble in Little Quahog. There are some real titles in there, though, like stories by H.P. Lovecraft, who was a native of Providence.
Our Junior Suite only cost $9/night more than a regular sized room, so of course we did!
Our hotel in Providence deserves its own post. We stayed at Graduate by Hilton, which is in a historic hotel the locals still refer to as The Biltmore. The Biltmore marquee is still on the roofline of the building.
The Graduate hotels are located near various universities, and this location was themed around Brown University, though Johnson & Wales and RISD are all in the same neighborhood.
Pics 1-6 are of the hotel's common areas. The remainder of the pictures are of our room. We think all the pictures of people on the walls are of former Brown students, like Lois Lowry, Ted Turner, JFK Jr, Laura Linney and David Bynre (obscured by the glare), Andre Leon Talley. The Heisman Trophy was named for a Brown alumnus.
The teddy bear lamp is a nod to the "Untitled (Lamp/Bear)" sculpture that lived on the Brown campus at the time the hotel was remodeled. (I saw the yellow version of the same sculpture in the airport layover in Doha, Qatar last year.)
The bookshelf wallpaper is filled with Rhode Island specific titles, most of them jokes, of which my favorite is Big Trouble in Little Quahog. There are some real titles in there, though, like stories by H.P. Lovecraft, who was a native of Providence.
Our Junior Suite only cost $9/night more than a regular sized room, so of course we did!
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