The Jefferson Hotel

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The Jefferson Hotel is one of the great historic hotels of the American South — a Beaux-Arts landmark on Franklin Street that has been operating since 1895 and that has been restored to a standard of luxury that its original architects would have recognised as their vision realised. The hotel's iconic features — the Tiffany stained-glass skylights in the Palm Court, the sweeping marble staircase modelled on that of Tara in Gone with the Wind, the two-story grand salon — are genuinely extraordinary by any standard. The Jefferson has hosted every American president since the late nineteenth century and is the kind of hotel that generations of Virginians associate with significant occasions. For LGBTQ+ visitors, the Jefferson is LGBTQ+-welcoming in the way of a great hotel in a city that has increasingly embraced its queer community: there is no particular gay marketing, but the welcome is complete and the staff are trained and disposed to make all guests feel equally valued. The Franklin Street location puts the hotel at the edge of the Fan District, within walking distance of Fielden's and the VCU campus.