Creative structural design and engineering has been essential in transforming a nearly 150-year-old former orphanage into a 74-room boutique hotel in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans. The $22.5-million Hotel St. Vincent project is nearing completion.
The restoration called for completely gutting, renovating and converting the property’s five historically designated buildings to create a 71,500-sq-ft luxury hotel with a newly constructed 6,000-sq-ft event space and private verandas for each room.