Kimpton Cottonwood Hotel (The Blackstone) (Omaha, Nebraska)

 hotel, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, listed building / architectural heritage

www.thecottonwoodhotel.com/

Built 1916
Architect unknown
Second Renaissance Revival Style
Designated Omaha Landmark: April 12, 1983

Built by the Bankers Realty Company in 1915 as the Blackstone Hotel, the structure started out as a residential or family hotel. As stated by the company at the time, residents in family hotels rented by the year rather than the day and received hotel services. Purchased by Vienna born Charles Schimmel in 1920, the Blackstone became a "symbol of elegance " for Omahans. Schimmel operated the Blackstone as a hotel, although it retained a number of its residents as well. The hotel published its own magazine, The Blackstonian, and maintained its own Pierce Arrow, which met visiting dignitaries arriving by train. With its ballroom, roof gardens and award winning restaurants, the Blackstone was the center of many of Omaha’s finest social functions for many years. Some say the reuben sandwich was invented here.

A fine example of the Second Renaissance Revival style of architecture, the Blackstone was converted to offices in 1984. It was sold in 2017 and restored as a hotel at a cost of $75 million. It reopened in 2020 as the Kimpton Cottonwood Hotel.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.