Many plans for reviving the neglected centers of America's small and medium-size cities involve building new museums, restaurants, and hotels to bring life to deserted sidewalks, but the architects and hoteliers behind the 21c Museum Hotel group found a winning formula in combining all three in one venue. For the flagship in downtown Louisville, the art collector-owners Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson hired New York–based Deborah Berke Partners to design a unique project that is equal part hotel and contemporary art museum, anchored to the street by a destination restaurant.
“We had been going to Basel and to Bilbao, and we saw how art and travel played a role in the commerce and vitality of other communities,” says Wilson. “We wanted to do the same thing in Louisville.”
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