Hotel Lucia

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New Imperial Hotel
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The Hotel Lucia, former Imperial Hotel, in 2011
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Location within downtown Portland
Location400 SW Broadway
Portland, Oregon
Coordinates 45°31′16″N122°40′42″W / 45.521102°N 122.678370°W / 45.521102; -122.678370
Area0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built1909
Architect Whidden & Lewis [1]
Architectural style20th Century Commercial; [1] Early Commercial [2]
NRHP reference No. 03001068 [2] [3]
Added to NRHPOctober 24, 2003

The Hotel Lucia, [4] [5] formerly the Imperial Hotel, is a historic hotel building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. It was built in 1909 as an extension of the adjacent, original Imperial Hotel. [6] The original Imperial building was made into a separate hotel in 1949, renamed the Plaza Hotel, and after a period of non-hotel use in the 1980s it today operates as the Kimpton Hotel Vintage Portland.

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The 1909 building retained its original name until 2002, when the Aspen Hotel Group purchased it, remodeled it as a boutique hotel, and renamed it Hotel Lucia. [7]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, listed as New Imperial Hotel [1] [3] and described as having Early Commercial architecture. [8]

The hotel is operated by Pyramid Global Hospitality . [9]

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