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Seelbach Hotel

by F.W. Mowbray

500 S 4th St, Louisville, KY 40202

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About this landmark

Beaux-Arts grand hotel listed on the National Register in 1975. Hosted F. Scott Fitzgerald, who used the hotel as inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's wedding in The Great Gatsby. Famous Rathskeller ceiling is the world's only known surviving Rookwood pottery room.

Seelbach Hotel

500 S 4th St, Louisville, KY 40202

Louisville

Details

Year Built: 1905
Architect: F.W. Mowbray
Style: Beaux-Arts
Period: Gilded Age
Era: 1905

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