About the Hotel
"From the moment guests enter, the details astound. A statue of Jefferson crafted in white Carrara marble dominates the check-in area. To the left is the Grand Staircase, said to be the model for the one Rhett swept Scarlett up in Gone With the Wind"
- USA Today
“When you arrive at The Jefferson, you know you’ve arrived…It’s a five-star space indeed that makes you feels so grand by so utterly dwarfing you.”
- Washington Post
“San Francisco has the Fairmont,
Chicago has the Drake and New York has the Plaza. Grand
hotels and grand cuisine are essential companions. In
Richmond we have the Jefferson and Lemaire.”
- Style Weekly
“ . . . [arguably] the most
beautiful [public room] of any hotel in the country
. . .”
- Charles Kuralt, Sunday Morning Segment for CBS News
“I've dressed for dinner
at the seaside Cloister and once drank a toast to Dorothy
Parker at the Algonquin. The Peabody in Memphis, Tennessee,
is pretty grand . . . But I’ve never seen anything,
anywhere, as sumptuous or beautiful as the restored
Jefferson.”
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Choosing a property that will impress attendees [the Fortune 500 Forum] who have likely stayed at some of the most prestigious properties in the world, is, of course, not an easy task. This year’s selections was Richmond, Va.’s Jefferson Hotel, a 262 room 1895 landmark designed by Carrere & Hastings and meticulously restored to its belle epoque splendor.”
- Meeting News
"As an example of beaux arts extravagance, the granite hotel [The Jefferson] is peerless."
- Southern Living
"Southern hospitality at its best. The staff is superb but laid back and unpretentious."
- Washington Post
"(The) best-kept secret of domestic travel."
- Forbes FYI
"Directly under the dome is an original life-size Carrara-marble statue of Thomas Jefferson, and off to the left of the main desk, down a grand staircase, is the bigger-than-life rotunda lobby. The 70-foot ceiling features another stained-glass skylight, this one from about 1907, and the faux-marble columns supporting it are embellished with plaster fruits and fronds — a grand setting for the hotel's Sunday brunch."
- New York Times
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