LOUISVILLE, KY—The historic Brown Hotel has been sold to 1859 Historic Hotels, a Galveston, TX,-based hotelier, by owner and former Ritz-Carlton Hotels executive Ian Lloyd-Jones for an undisclosed price. Lloyd-Jones owned the 293-room property, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, for 13 years. Lloyd-Jones and The Camberley Company managed The Brown Hotel for three years before buying the property and doing more that $4 million in renovations that include the addition of one-of-a-kind furniture pieces to the lobby and upgrades to room décor, all three restaurants and all meeting rooms and adding high-speed wireless internet to the entire building. The 83-year old historic hotel will join 11 other hotels in the 1859 Historic Hotels family with sister properties in Texas, Virginia and Colorado. 1859 Historic Hotels is named after the year guests were first welcomed at a small San Antonio inn next to the Alamo. That inn is now known as The Menger Hotel, the oldest continuous operating hotel west of the Mississippi River.
