From more than 200 nominees, the following Historic Hotels of America and Historic Hotels Worldwide hotels and hoteliers were honored with these prestigious annual awards for 2019:

Historic Hotels of America New Member of the Year

• Blackburn Inn (1828) Staunton, Virginia

Best Social Media of a Historic Hotel

• The Hotel Hershey® (1933) Hershey, Pennsylvania

Sustainability Champion

• Morris Inn at Notre Dame (1952) South Bend, Indiana

Best Small Historic Inn/Hotel (Under 75 Guestrooms)

• James Hotel (1875) Red Wing, Minnesota

Best Historic Hotel (76-200 Guestrooms)

• Historic Hotel Bethlehem (1922) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Best Historic Hotel (201-400 Guestrooms)

• The Wigwam (1929) Litchfield Park, Arizona

Best Historic Hotel (Over 400 Guestrooms)

• Grand Hotel Golf Resort & Spa (1847) Point Clear, Alabama

Best City Center Historic Hotel

• The Hermitage Hotel (1910) Nashville, Tennessee

Best Historic Resort

• Mohonk Mountain House (1869) New Paltz, New York

Best Historic Restaurant 

• Smokehouse Restaurant at Antrim (1844) Taneytown, Maryland

Hotel Historian of the Year

• Larry Johnson at The Seelbach Hilton Louisville (1905) Louisville, Kentucky

Ambassador of the Year (Quarter Century of Service)

• Frolin Hatcher and Larry Goins at Pinehurst Resort (1895) Pinehurst, North Carolina

Best Historic Hotels Worldwide Hotel in Europe

• Losby Gods (1744) Finstadjordet, Norway

Best Historic Hotels Worldwide Hotel in Asia/Pacific

• Raffles Singapore (1887) Singapore

Best Historic Hotels Worldwide Hotel in the Americas 

• Hacienda Uxmal Plantation and Museum (1673) Yucatan, Mexico        

Steward of History and Historic Preservation 

• Robert H. Dedman Jr. at Pinehurst Resort (1895) Pinehurst, North Carolina

Legendary Family Historic Hoteliers of the Year

• The Belz Family at The Peabody Memphis (1869) Memphis, Tennessee

Historic Hotelier of the Year

• Kenneth Hayward at Grand Hotel (1887) Mackinac Island, Michigan

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Steven Dopp at Francis Marion Hotel (1924) Charleston, South Carolina; Middlebury Inn (1827), Middlebury, Vermont; The Westin Poinsett (1925), Greenville, South Carolina