1910s

Vidago Palace opens in northern Portugal at the order of Carlos I

The Lutetia opens on the boulevard Raspail, built by the Bon Marché for its suppliers

The Ritz Madrid opens, promoted by Alfonso XIII after he found no hotel fit for his guests

Otto Goring opens the Goring; it remains the only London grand hotel still family-owned

The Grand Hotel Tremezzo opens on Lake Como

The Grand Hotel Tremezzo opens; the De Santis family takes it in 1975

The New York Bar opens at 5 rue Daunou on Thanksgiving Day, its fittings shipped from Manhattan

The Viceregal Palace is added at Narendra Nagar for a viceroy's visit that never happens

Albert Keller forms the Ritz-Carlton Investing Company, franchising the name in the United States

A tramway from Cagnes-sur-Mer to Vence via Saint-Paul opens the village to the outside world

Benoît opens in Paris

Bến Thành opens on its present site in Saigon under the French administration

Le Normandy opens at Deauville, built as a Norman manor in half-timber

The Manila Hotel opens; MacArthur lives in its penthouse from 1935

The Palace opens in Madrid at the wish of Alfonso XIII, with the largest stained-glass dome in Spain

The María Cristina opens at San Sebastián, named for the queen regent

RMS Titanic sails on 10 April with a Ritz restaurant à la carte, a Café Parisien and the first swimming pool at sea in her class, and is lost on the 15th — a house that existed for five days

The Astoria opens on St Isaac’s Square, by Fyodor Lidval — cork soundproofing, central vacuum extraction, running hot water and light-signal service calls: the most advanced house in the empire

The Sursock villa is built in Beirut; it is later given to the city as a museum

The Beverly Hills Hotel opens before the city around it exists

The Astoria opens in St Petersburg, by Fyodor Lidval

Suvretta House opens above St. Moritz

Keswick Hall is built in Virginia; it becomes a hotel in 1993

François André takes the Deauville casino; the Barrière group grows from it

Antoni de Falguera's Modernist arches are installed at the Rambla entrance; the metal roof follows in 1914 and ends the era of open stalls

Le Royal opens at Deauville facing the sea

The Bellevue Palace opens in Bern beside the federal parliament

The Carlton opens at St. Moritz, built as a summer residence for Nicholas II ⚑ the imperial link is house tradition

The Párisi Udvar is built in Budapest as a bank and arcade; it opens as a hotel in 2019

The Excelsior opens at Dubrovnik below the old city walls

The Collins Bridge opens on 12 June, two and a half miles of wood and the longest in the world; Fisher, who paid to finish it, is in Indianapolis

The Savoy Moscow takes its first guests on 30 March, by Victor Velichkin

The Grand Hotel Palazzo della Fonte opens at Fiuggi

The Hôtel Plaza Athénée opens on the avenue Montaigne, days after the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Badrutt's Palace opens Europe's first indoor tennis courts

The Gstaad Palace opens above the village

The Gstaad Palace opens on 8 December as the Royal-Hôtel and Winter Palace — 165 rooms, 70 with their own bathroom

The Carlton opens on the Croisette at Cannes

The Greenbrier's present hotel opens at White Sulphur Springs

Le Negresco opens on the Promenade des Anglais, built by Henri Negresco

The Chosun Hotel opens in Seoul; Shinsegae revives the name as Josun in 2020

The Poseidonion opens on Spetses, built by Sotirios Anargyros

Caffè San Marco opens in Trieste on 3 January, months before the war

The Eden Roc pavilion is built 400 yards from the Grand Hôtel du Cap

Ngiam Tong Boon creates the Singapore Sling at the Long Bar, Raffles

A men's tennis tournament is held on the Palace clay courts; it becomes the Swiss Open

The Tokyo Station Hotel opens inside the new Marunouchi terminus

The Pennsylvania Railroad announces a hotel opposite its own Penn Station; the New York Central builds the Commodore beside Grand Central at the same time, by the same contractor

Statler buys the operating lease of the unbuilt Hotel Pennsylvania on 11 December for $1m a year

Statler pays $1m a year on 11 December for the operating lease of a hotel the Pennsylvania Railroad is building opposite its own station

The Mercado de San Miguel opens in Madrid, its iron-and-glass hall modelled on Les Halles

Johannes Müller builds Schloss Elmau in Bavaria as a retreat

Kirk Kerkorian is born in Fresno, California, on 6 June

The Halekulani opens at Waikiki

Germain Passédat acquires Le Petit Nice at the Anse de Maldormé, Marseille

The Coburg is renamed the Connaught during the First World War

The monarchy falls; Anna Demel keeps the K.u.K. warrant on the shop and the packaging

Picasso holds his wedding banquet at Le Meurice

The Mount Nelson is painted pink by manager Aldo Renato to mark the peace

The Hotel Pennsylvania opens in New York with 2,200 rooms

The Hotel Pennsylvania opens on 25 January with 2,200 rooms, each with a bath — the largest hotel in the world, built by a railway and linked to its station by a tunnel

The Palace opens in Barcelona as the Ritz, on the Gran Via

The Fäßler family opens the Sonnenalp at Ofterschwang

S. F. B. Morse forms Del Monte Properties and buys the Monterey coast for $1.34 m — golf courses with the views, residential lots around them, and the lot sales paying for the courses

Fisher Island is created out of the spoil from dredging Biscayne Bay

The international delegations draft the Covenant of the League of Nations in the Crillon's salons

Construction begins on the Copacabana Palace at President Pessoa's initiative

Conrad Hilton buys the Mobley in Cisco, Texas, for $40,000 after failing to buy a bank

The Palace opens in Barcelona as the Ritz, on the Gran Via