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{{Infobox hotel
| hotel_name = Lancaster Arts Hotel
| image = Lancaster Arts Hotel.jpg
| address = 300 Harriburg Avenue<br />[[Lancaster, Pennsylvania|Lancaster]], [[Pennsylvania]]
| coordinates = {{coord|40|2|49|N|76|18|44|W|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_map = Pennsylvania
| pushpin_mapsize = 295
| opening_date = {{Start date|2006}}
| number_of_rooms = 63
| floors = 3 {{Frac|1|2}}
| website = {{URL|lancasterartshotel.com}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| embed = yes
| name = Rosenbaum Tobacco Warehouse
| nrhp_type = cp | nocat = yes
| built = {{Circa|1881}}
| architecture = 
| builder =

| area = 
| designated_nrhp_type = September 21, 1990
| partof = [[Harrisburg Avenue Tobacco Historic District]]
| partof_refnum = 90001393<ref name="focus">{{Cite web |title=NPS Focus |url=http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov |work=National Register of Historic Places |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |accessdate=October 3, 2010}}</ref>
}}
}}

The '''Lancaster Arts Hotel''' is a hotel in [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]], housed in a historic tobacco warehouse.

Originally, the hotel site was built in the 1880s as a tobacco warehouse and was used that way until 1945.<ref>[http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/Portal/Communities/BHP/MPDFs/Tobacco_Buildings_in_Lancaster_City.pdf U.S. Dept. of Interior National Historic Places]</ref>  It then was used by a paper and twine business as well as an electronics business before being transformed into the hotel.<ref>[http://www.lancasterartshotel.com/ Lancaster Arts Hotel Website]</ref>  The hotel is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] as a [[contributing property]] to the [[Harrisburg Avenue Tobacco Historic District]]. Lancaster Arts Hotel is a member of [[Historic Hotels of America]], the official program of the [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]].<ref name=hha>{{cite journal|title=Lancaster Arts Hotel, a Historic Hotels of America member|url=http://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/lancaster-arts-hotel/|publisher=Historic Hotels of America|accessdate=January 28, 2014}}</ref>

The hotel also has an art gallery<ref>[http://www.artshotelgallery.com/exhibitions.php Artshotel Gallery]</ref> featuring rotating exhibitions by regional artists.  Included in the gallery is a room paying homage to Lancaster sculptor Blanche Nevin<ref>[http://www.askart.com/askart/n/blanche_nevin/blanche_nevin.aspx AskArt.com]</ref> whose sculpture of [[Peter Muhlenberg]] is housed in the [[National Statuary Hall Collection]] at the [[U.S. Capitol Building]].  Another room features the work of Watercolor Painter [[Charles Demuth]].
Other artists who have been exhibited at the hotel include Warren Rohrer<ref>[http://www.philamuseum.org/doc_downloads/pressroom/rohrer/pressKits/rohrer.pdf Biographical Background]</ref> and David Brumbach.<ref>[http://www.askart.com/askart/b/david_brumbach/david_brumbach.aspx AskArt.com]</ref>

== Further reading ==
* {{Cite web |last=Becker |first=Gloria O |title=Harrisburg Avenue Tobacco Historic District |work=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form |date=February 17, 1990 |format=PDF |publisher=[[Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission]] |url={{NRHP-PA|H096569_01H.pdf}} |accessdate=August 12, 2011}}

==References==
[[File:Lancaster-Arts.jpg|thumb|right|Hotel entrance]]
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== External links ==
* [http://www.lancasterartshotel.com Lancaster Arts Hotel]

{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania}}

[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Industrial buildings completed in 1881]]
[[Category:Hotels in Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Hotels established in 2006]]
[[Category:Historic district contributing properties in Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Tobacco buildings in the United States]]
[[Category:Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:1881 establishments in Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Historic Hotels of America]]