Year Built: 1916
Architect: Alfred W. Woods

This structure is another of the small hotels that formerly lined North 7th Street facing the Depot, and one of the many buildings of Russell Stover Company’s Haymarket complex.  It is most important for its role in recent Haymarket history as the district’s pioneering residential rehabilitation project.  The ground floor, which was originally a café, provides retail space, while the upper floor guest rooms have been converted into the owners’ unique urban home.  Bob Carpenter was the architect for the rehabilitation.

The hotel’s building permit of 1916 identifies the owners as the Tiernan Brothers and their architect as Alfred W. Woods.  He designed a simple but handsome stone-trimmed façade and very plain side walls, in the manner of many Haymarket building.  The ‘1869’ datestone centered high on the front wall presumably had meaning to the Tiernans, but it is something of a mystery today.  Perhaps it commemorates or was salvaged from one of the earlier hotels on the site.