Hotel contact:

Howard Jacobs,
General Manager
400 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97205
Phone: (503) 225-1717 /
(877) 225-1717
Fax: (503) 225-1919
howard@hotellucia.com
www.hotellucia.com

Media contacts:

Dianne Haines or Darcie Meihoff
Leopold Ketel & Partners
112 SW First Ave.
Portland, OR 97204
(503) 295-1918 ext: 107/108
Fax: (503) 295-3601
dianne@leoketel.com		 Hotel Lucia -- Portlland, Oregon

FACT SHEET

Location

  • The Hotel Lucia is located in the heart of downtown Portland’s business and shopping districts.

Accommodations

  • 128 guestrooms

David Hume Kennerly Gallery

  • The Hotel Lucia permanently features 680 of David Hume Kennerly’s photographs throughout the hotel’s public spaces and guestrooms. Photographs featured include national and international political leaders, entertainers, historical documentative photographs and personal profiles.

Restaurant and Room Service

  • Typhoon! -- Northwest Thai food created by co-owner, Bo Lohasawat Kline. Kline’s dishes are culinary signatures that are filled with crunchy and crisp freshness with distinct, bursting flavors. Typhoon! offers a stunning array of traditional and nouvelle Thai dishes at modest prices. The Hotel Lucia room services selections will also be provided by Typhoon!

Guest Services

  • Fitness Center
  • Business Center Services
  • Valet Parking
  • Express Check-In and Out

Amenities

  • Pillow-top mattresses with luxury linens
  • Two-line cordless phones with data port and speakerphone
  • High-speed wireless internet connection
  • CD players
  • Plush robes
  • Private honor bar
  • Aveda bath soaps and lotions
  • In-room safe

General Manager -- Howard Jacobs

  • Howard Jacobs was appointed general manager of the Hotel Lucia in September 2001. His prior work experience includes 14 years in senior management positions with Hilton Hotels Corporation in Nevada and San Francisco. Jacobs also spent two years as the worldwide hospitality manager of R.R. Donnelley’s locations in North America, Europe and Asia. Jacobs is a native of Northridge, Calif.

David Hume Kennerly -- Photographer

David Hume Kennerly, a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and Oregon native, displays 680 of his works as a permanent collection in the 128 guestrooms and public spaces in the Hotel Lucia. Kennerly served as personal photographer to President Gerald Ford and has photographed the administrations of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and President George W. Bush. Kennerly has also photographed a medley of current events and national and international political leaders. His work has appeared in publications such as LIFE, TIME, GEORGE, and NEWSWEEK magazines. Kennerly recently published his fourth book, Photo du Jour: A Picture-A-Day Journey Through the First Year of the New Millennium, with his fifth book scheduled to be published in Fall 2004.

Kennerly was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his Vietnam photographs and has also received five prizes in the 2001 White House Press Photographer’s contest, including first place for best campaign coverage in 2000. Kennerly was named one of Washington’s top 50 journalists in the March 2001 issue of Washingtonian magazine, the only photographer to make the list. In 1997, he won the President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. As the executive producer of NBC’s “The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story,” Kennerly received a primetime Emmy nomination in the “Outstanding Drama” category. He was also awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Tebbot Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad in 1986 and received two first place awards from the World Press Photo contest in 1976.

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