User:Jengod/Burnet

Burnet House was a grand hotel located at the corner of Third and Vine in Cincinnati, Ohio that stood from 1850 to 1926. In its day the Burnet hosted a multitude of dignitaries, including Abraham Lincoln (twice), Edward VII of the United Kingdom (when he was still Prince of Wales), and Jenny Lind. During the American Civil War, it was at the Burnet that Sherman and Grant planned the former's March to the Sea.

The hotel was named for Jacob Burnet, an investor and judge of the Ohio Supreme Court. The developer was Abraham Coleman, a Cincinnati civic booster, who raised $2.5 million from 170 investors. Isaiah Rogers, nationally acclaimed as a designer of elite hotels, was hired for $150,000. Burnet House, when opened in 1850, was nationally acclaimed and was the city's premiere hotel well into the 1870s. Circa 1879 it had 240 guest rooms, as well as parlors, reading rooms, smoking rooms, billiard rooms, bath rooms, a bar and a restaurant. In later years a library at the hotel was home to "housed the library and portrait collection of the Loyal Legion, whose membership consisted of officers who served in the Union Army during the Civil War."