By all accounts she was a feisty woman, making sure that hotels were taxed fairly, instead of favoring the Jefferson Hotel.
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The Hotel Richmond was built in 1904 by entrepreneuse Adeline Detroit Atkinson, with first phase by Harrison Albright and second by John Kevan Peebles, the latter architect of the wings of Virginia's State Capitol on Capitol Square.
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On its construction it became one of many distinguished hotels in downtown Richmond that operated in the early part of the 20th Century including the Jefferson Hotel, Hotel Rueger, Murphy's Hotel, Hotel John Marshall and Hotel William Byrd.
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Further additions were made by John Kevan Peebles, architect of the wings of the State Capitol, and were done in preparation for the 1907 300th anniversary of the founding of Virginia; obviously, the two were meant to be part of a whole look for Capitol Square.
The building shared a block with the Hotel Richmond, also known as the state's Ninth Street office building, and St. Peter's Church.
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