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HOTEL GENEVIEVE
Location: Louisville, KY
Designer: ROHE Creative and Bunkhouse
On Offer: Along with making itself at home in Mexico City’s La Condesa neighborhood, Austin’s Bunkhouse group has also arrived in NuLu. “Hotel Genevieve is our largest hotel at 122 rooms,” says executive chairman Amar Lalvani. “It’s our first hotel in Kentucky, our first ground-up construction in the U.S. outside of Texas, and our first collaboration with ROHE Creative, a very talented firm out of Philly.” It’s also the neighborhood’s first boutique hotel.
The collaboration with Mountain Shore Properties offers a cool blue King Suite facing Market street and a larger, sunny Suite Genevieve. That option, like the hotel itself, is named after the patron saint of Pairs and the limestone enriching the water that makes good Kentucky Bourbon. Sip a glass of the local’s finest on Bunkhouse’s first rooftop bar, with fine views of the Ohio River, while nibbling on street food inspired by the region’s French settlers. Or taste a single-barrel bourbon that will be offered exclusively at the hotel by locals Rabbit Hole Distillery, who have also partnered with Bunkhouse to curate an art walk.
