Grand America Hotel

Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.

The Grand America Hotel

The Grand America Hotel, July 2013

General information
Address| 555 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, Utah
Country| United States
Coordinates| 40°45′27″N 111°53′25″W﻿ / ﻿40.75750°N 111.89028°W﻿ / 40.75750; -111.89028
Opened| 2001
Owner| Grand America Hotels & Resorts
Height| 328 feet (100 m)
Technical details
Floor count| 24
Design and construction
Architect(s)| Frank Nicholson
Known for| Flagship facility of the Grand America Hotels & Resorts
Other information
Number of rooms| 775
Parking| Paid self & valet
Website
www.grandamerica.com

The Grand America Hotel is the largest hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.[1] Located at 555 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, 84111,[1] it is one block away from Washington Square in the downtown area.[2] It was commissioned and built in 2001 by Earl Holding,[3] and designed by Frank Nicholson.[4] The architect was Smallwood Reynolds Stewart and Stewart. Frank Nicholson was the Interior Designer. The hotel's façade is covered in 300,000 square feet of Vermont white granite. The interior has English all-wool carpets and Milanese and Venetian chandeliers.[5] It was Salt Lake City's only Five Diamond hotel, as ranked by American Automobile Association in 2012.[6]

It is the eighth-tallest building in Salt Lake City, and the tallest hotel with 24 floors. The hotel is 328 feet (100 m) tall if measured all the way to the top of the flag pole. The hotel also features 775 rooms and suites, numerous conference rooms which total in 75,000 square feet (7,000 m2) of flexible meeting space, a Conde Nast Traveler-rated full-service spa,[7] outdoor and indoor pools, exercise facilities, Garden Cafe restaurant, Lobby Lounge and Gibson Lounge bar.

The building has been home to conferences, lectures and is also frequently used by visiting professional sports teams. For example, in October 2013, Condoleezza Rice gave a speech at the hotel.[8]

## See also

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* Hotels portal

* List of hotels in the United States
* Grand America Hotels & Resorts

## References

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1. ^ a b "Grand America". grandamerica.com. Grand America Hotels & Resorts. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
2. ^ "The Grand America Hotel" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
3. ^ Isidore, Chris (February 9, 2002). "Salt Lake's five-star gamble: Grand America will determine if city can support hotel built for top dollar". money.cnn.com. CNN. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
4. ^ "The Grand America Hotel: Salt Lake City". fnicholson.com. Frank Nicholson Incorporated. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 23, 2018 – via Wayback Machine.
5. ^ "Isn't it grand?". Deseret News. March 11, 2001. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015.
6. ^ "AAA/CAA Five Diamond Lodgings" (PDF). January 20, 2012.
7. ^ "2014 Readers' Poll: Top 50 Hotel Spas in the United States". Archived from the original on July 10, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2018 – via Wayback Machine.
8. ^ Cortez, Marjorie (October 12, 2013). "Condoleezza Rice addresses U.S. 'governance problem' at Utah conf". ksl.com. Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media. Retrieved April 23, 2018.

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