Hotel Fontenelle was an upscale hotel located at 1806 Douglas Street, Downtown Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Designed by noted architect Thomas Rogers Kimball in the Late Gothic Revival style, the hotel opened in 1915. It closed in 1971 and was subsequently demolished in 1983. It was named after Logan Fontenelle, an interpreter for the Omaha Tribe.[1]
History
Hotel Fontenelle was announced in 1912 as a sixteen story hotel in Downtown Omaha. Designed by Thomas Rogers Kimball, the hotel used a Late Gothic Revival style.[2] The following year, it would be named for Logan Fontenelle, an interpreter for the Omaha Tribe when it ceded land to the U.S. government which became the city of Omaha.[3] The hotel began construction in 1914 and was built for the Douglas Hotel Company.[4] The hotel officially opened on February 26, 1915.