NOPSI New Orleans , or the NOPSI Hotel , is a hotel in the historic NOPSI building in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana .
7-511: The building is the former headquarters of New Orleans' main utilities company, the New Orleans Public Service Incorporated , which was set up in 1922 to consolidate numerous separate public utilities firms. Its nine-story building was designed by architects Favrot and Livaudais , and was constructed in 1927. The building "displayed some of the finest architectural finishes throughout the whole city. Perhaps
14-546: The French Quarter . The building's roof sports an outdoor pool. New Orleans Public Service Incorporated Entergy New Orleans , formerly New Orleans Public Service Incorporated (NOPSI), is an electric and natural gas utility and former mass transit provider that was based in New Orleans, Louisiana . The various streetcar lines of New Orleans were consolidated under NOPSI's control in 1922. Throughout
21-610: The National Trust for Historic Preservation as a member of the Historic Hotels of America program since 2016. The hotel is noted as one of few boutique hotels owned by black women . Sheila Johnson , NOPSI's owner who has had other business successes, is credited with reopening the hotel after it had been unused since the 1980s. It is deemed to be a luxury hotel, and its grand lobby has been asserted to be stunning. New Orleans City Business pointed out in 2021 that
28-682: The 1950s and 1960s, NOPSI converted all the original streetcar lines in New Orleans, except for the St. Charles Streetcar Line , to bus service. It was headquartered in a building built in 1929, which later became the NOPSI New Orleans hotel. In 1983, control of the system's mass transit was transferred to a public agency, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority . NOPSI became Entergy New Orleans,
35-451: The building, so the building's footprint forms a very heavy L-shape around that rectangle. The plaza is walled off from the sidewalks and is part of the NOPSI property. It is just three blocks (0.2 miles (0.32 km) northeast along Baronne to New Orleans' major Canal Street thoroughfare, and then just one block southeast to the beginning of Bourbon Street , noted as a major entrance into
42-626: The greatest feature was the ornate lobby that resembled the ground floor of a bank." The NOPSI entity relocated away in 1983, and the building was then vacant for many years. In 1991 it was included as a contributing building in the listing of the New Orleans Lower Central Business District onto the National Register of Historic Places . Eventually it was converted into the current 217-room hotel, which opened in 2017. It has been listed by
49-404: The renovation was an adaptive reuse project, one of few recent at that time, as suitable properties in New Orleans central business district were simply not available. It is now a top New Orleans hotel. The building is located essentially on the northwest corner of the intersection of Union and Baronne Streets. A small rectangular plaza at the very corner, however, makes a notched footprint into
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