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Hotel Valley Ho is a historic hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona. Also called the Valley Ho and, for 28 years, the Ramada Valley Ho, the hotel was originally designed by Edward L. Varney, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. It first opened in 1956〔''Travel + Leisure'', 2009. ("Hotel Valley Ho." ) Retrieved on December 29, 2009.〕 with a forward-looking and futuristic design.〔 Movie stars and famous baseball players stayed, and the building quickly became known for its trendsetting guests and its fashionable atmosphere. The success of the venture resulted in expansion in 1958, with two additional two-story wings of guest rooms extending to the north. Though initially proposed by Varney, a central tower of guest rooms, rising over the lobby, was not built. The property was bought by the Ramada hotel chain in 1973, and was redecorated to cover the 1950s design, seen at the time as outdated. No longer in vogue, but centrally located, the hotel remained prominent for years, and hosted conferences, business meetings, and vacationers. Under Ramada management, however, the property began to show a lack of maintenance, and its popularity declined. It closed in 2001 and its demolition was considered when no purchase offers were received. Admirers of the hotel's exemplary architecture and its local history rallied to save it, and it was placed on the Scottsdale Historic Register.〔 In 2002, the hotel was bought by Westroc Hotels & Resorts and underwent a renovation, which was completed in 2005.〔''The New York Times'', Where To Stay. ("Hotel Valley Ho." ) Retrieved on December 29, 2009.〕 Conceived anew by the architectural firm Allen+Philp, a seven-story tower with guest rooms and condominiums was built above the lobby, in the spirit of Varney's proposal. New restaurants were incorporated, including a retro-chic seasonal-American restaurant (ZuZu), and a Trader Vic's franchise at the northeast end of the property (closed in 2011). The hotel's original jet-age design was restored as much as possible, augmented with 2000s-era fixtures. The Hotel Valley Ho is a AAA "Four Diamond Award" winner and a member of "Preferred Hotels & Resorts". Author and architect Alan Hess called the hotel "one of the best-preserved mid-century hotels in the country".〔Finnerty, Megan. ''The Arizona Republic'', December 20, 2005. ("One-time star spot Valley Ho is back." ) Retrieved on December 29, 2009.〕 ==History== Robert and Evelyn Foehl were the first to conceive of the hotel. Robert Foehl trained at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. He then bought the Hotel San Marcos in Chandler, Arizona. Following that, he managed the Jokake Inn in Scottsdale. Evelyn Foehl managed the Hacienda del Sol in Tucson as one of the few women in the hotel business.〔Reynolds, Kate. ''Insiders' Guide to Phoenix'', 6th edition, pp. 55–59. Globe Pequot, 2008. ISBN 0-7627-4868-0〕 The two established a core of investors to build a new hotel on an site in Scottsdale and to design it, they hired Edward L. Varney, one of the most prominent local architects of the time.〔 Varney set the hotel around a central pool lounge and used extended horizontal lines in the wings where rooms included air conditioning for year-round operation, a first for Scottsdale.〔''The Interior Design Society'', The Greater Phoenix-Northern Arizona Chapter. ("IDS Phoenix Winter Holiday Tour 2007: The Hotel Valley Ho." ) Retrieved on December 29, 2009.〕 A curving porte-cochere with abstract Southwestern designs in cast concrete opened onto a high-ceiling lobby which gave guests a "sense of arrival",〔City of Scottsdale. Historic Zoning. ("Historic Significance and Integrity Assessment Report for Listing Hotel Valley Ho on the Scottsdale Historic Register." ) Retrieved on April 25, 2010.〕 a feature often used by Frank Lloyd Wright. The tall lobby connected the guests to a restaurant, a lounge, a nightclub, and the central pool. The interior design was conceived and executed by interior architect Thelma Hawkins, the director of Barker Bros. Phoenix Studio of Interior Design.〔''Architectural Digest'', Winter 1958. "Hotel Valley Ho." New York: John C. Brasfield Publishing Corp.〕 The project was completed on December 20, 1956 at a cost of $1.5 million, an amount equivalent to $ million in current value.〔Corbett, Peter. ''The Arizona Republic'', December 20, 2005. ("Valley Ho's history adds to cachet: Movie stars, athletes stayed at swank hotel." ) Hosted by Arizona Central. Retrieved on December 29, 2009.〕 Varney added an unusual feature for a hotel of the time: a parking lot.〔 The parking lot afforded guests the personal comfort and freedom of pulling their car up very close to their rooms.〔 This was the first motor resort in Scottsdale.〔 The Foehls held a contest in March 1956 to name the as-yet-uncompleted hotel. They specified that the name should have a "westward flavor" like its parent, the Westward Ho in Phoenix.〔 The winning name "Valley Ho" was selected because the location was at the periphery of Paradise Valley, an affluent area, and because the identical "Ho" connected the new hotel with the older one in Phoenix. Later, it was discovered that ''ho'' means "you are welcomed here, this is a friendly place" in a local aboriginal American language.〔 The Foehls knew many in the Hollywood film industry, and a number of film stars stayed at the hotel. In late December 1957, Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood celebrated their wedding reception at the hotel.〔 Bette Davis, Roy Rogers, Bing Crosby, Frankie Avalon, Humphrey Bogart, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Marilyn Monroe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Tony Curtis were known to have stayed there.〔〔〔〔 Sometimes late at night, Jimmy Durante would come down from his room to play the piano in the lounge for other sleepless guests.〔 The Foehls ran the hotel very closely—they lived on the premises.〔 Local Scottsdale corporation Motorola used the hotel to house its transferred employees while they looked for permanent residences. Some of the baseball players, coaches, and managers taking part in the spring training Cactus League of Arizona stayed at the hotel, including Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Leo Durocher, the latter requesting Room 103 every time he visited, for its nearness to the lobby.〔 Chicago-based sports reporter Dave Hoekstra writes that he and his "Bleacher Bum" colleagues did not have enough money to stay under the same roof as the baseball players they were watching, and instead crowded into rooms at the Safari motel next door (since razed). Hoekstra notes that, throughout the 1960s, "the Ho was the high-roller place in the Sun Valley".〔 The Valley Ho competed favorably with the Safari Hotel, erected about the same time east of Scottsdale Fashion Square.〔 Both hotels offered premium hospitality, and helped Scottsdale expand its public image.〔The Safari Hotel in Scottsdale was demolished in the 1990s.〕 With the Valley Ho an immediate financial success, in 1958 Varney designed and built two more wings of guest rooms to the northwest of the original complex.〔 The same materials and style were employed on the expansion buildings, but instead of single exterior corridors with rooms to one side, the added wings loaded central corridors with rooms on both sides.〔 Another Scottsdale landmark hotel, the Mountain Shadows Resort, opened the following year, in 1959. These three tourist havens reflected a desired cosmopolitan and exotic feel on Scottsdale.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hotel Valley Ho」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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