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3 unusual facts about American Colony Hotel


American Colony Hotel

In 1902, the Jaffa hotelier Plato von Ustinov (grandfather of the British actor Peter Ustinov) was looking for a place to put up guests visiting Jerusalem and asked the Spaffords to accommodate them.

In 1995, Peter Ustinov visited the hotel and planted a palm tree in the courtyard.

Daniella Ohad Smith

It discusses such icons as the King David Hotel, the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, the Park Hotel in Jaffa, owned by Plato von Ustinov, grandfather of Peter Ustinov, and an unrealized hotel designed by Erich Mendelsohn in Haifa.



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