claim to fame: $70 million renovation completed in November 2004 including addition of spa and state of the art exercise facility. Hotel Monteleone is one of 3 hotels in the U.S. named a literary landmark, the other two are Algonquin and the Plaza in New York. Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemmingway, William Faulkner, Sherwood Anderson and Eudora Welty have all not only stayed at the hotel, but incl... read more