Hotel Gleason/Albemarle Hotel, Imperial Cafe Explained

Hotel Gleason/Albemarle Hotel, Imperial Cafe
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:October 20, 1981[1]
Designated Other1 Number:104-0374
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:617-619 W. Main St., Charlottesville, Virginia
Coordinates:38.0311°N -78.4892°W
Architecture:Late Victorian, Victorian
Added:August 10, 1983
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:83003267

Hotel Gleason/Albemarle Hotel, Imperial Cafe is a historic hotel and commercial building located at Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1896, and has a three-bay, three-story pressed-brick facade raised above the ground-floor recessed loggia in the Late Victorian style. The loggia is supported on four Corinthian order columns. The hotel closed in 1976.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hotel Gleason/Albemarle Hotel, Imperial Cafe . unknown. n.d.. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo