The Biltmore Greensboro Hotel
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A twenty-five room boutique hotel located in the heart of Greensboro, NC's downtown business district.
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111 W Washington Street
Greensboro, NC
27401
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We are an independently owned and operated boutique hotel offering unique accommodations right in the heart of Greensboro's downtown business district. Our 26 rooms blend comfort with elegance and celebrate the rich, expansive history captured within our century-old walls. We take great pride in our charm and personable atmosphere, standards to which our high volume of repeat clientele can attest. No other hotel in town can boast our long list of amenities and conveniences at so reasonable a price point. If you’re ready for something different, something refreshing, give us a try—we’ve thought of every detail!
Our history begins in 1903, when the building was constructed to house the burgeoning corporate empire of Cone Export and Commission Company. At the time it was said to be “in every way up-to-date and well appointed.” This means completed wired for electricity and plumbing plus 1920, they added one of the first unmanned elevators to the building; it is the one we still use today.
They occupied the space until 1924 when they moved to larger building around the corner. At that time, the building housed local insurance companies. It was in 1929, that the building was converted to living quarters. Half of the building was used as an annex to the local post office, until 1932, and the other half was listed in the city directory as furnished rooms. The Greenwich, as it became known in 1930, was one of the first to offer private baths for around $2.00 a day. In the late ‘40s, early 50s, it became known as the Greenwich Apartments and stayed this way until the mid 1960s.
In the late ‘60s, the building reopened as the Greenwich Inn, a new face was brought to the building by renowned interior designer Otto Zenke. He modeled the hotel after an English hunting club and decorated the lobby as an old world drawing-room with walnut paneling and traditional hunt scenes.