The Brown Hotel
Louisville, KY
The Brown Hotel, a historic AAA Four Diamond hotel, features classic English Renaissance architecture and an elegant Georgian Revival-style exterior trimmed in stone and terra cotta. Of its opulent two-story lobby with a hand-painted coffered ceiling, Botticino marble floor, finely carved mahogany furnishings, and Palladian-style windows, a writer from Southern Living notes, “I love a grand hotel. I adore sweeping into a lavish lobby that looks as though it came straight from a 1930’s movie set.” The Brown has been a beloved Louisville landmark and favorite social gathering spot since it opened in 1923 and was named in Top Hotels in the South by Conde Nast Traveler magazine. The Brown Hotel has been named to these Historic Hotels of America Top 25 Lists The 2025 Top 25 Historic Hotels of America Culinary Heritage and TraditionsThe 2023 Top 25 Historic Hotels of America Most Unique Culinary Heritage and Culinary Traditions The 2022 Top 25 Historic Hotels of America Most Unique Culinary Heritage and Culinary Traditions