Riverside Hotel



	Riverside Hotel 620 East Las Olas Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301 (954) 467-0671 Fax: (954) 462-2148 Sales Fax: (954) 832-0200 Sales: 800-827-1585 Reservations: 800-325-3280 The Riverside Hotel is located on a scenic point of Fort Lauderdale’s New River in the heart of the city’s downtown. The Riverside is the city’s oldest hotel, built in 1936 on the well-known Las Olas Boulevard dining and shopping district. To the back of the hotel is the river bank and its constantly changing water traffic. The Riverside Hotel is THE place to stay in Fort Lauderdale and the only hotel on Las Olas Boulevard. The hotel also boasts two fabulous restaurants and the popular Golden Lion. The Riverside Hotel offers full wedding and conference facilities too! The hotel was founded by two brothers from Chicago, Preston and John Wells. They had a passion for deep sea fishing and regularly chartered a boat in Fort Lauderdale. Their frequent visits to Fort Lauderdale put them in close contact with Champ Carr, the charter boat’s mate. He was a character and a good story teller, so the Wells brothers decide that he was the perfect person to run a small hotel they had recently bought called the Las Olas Hotel. In 1936 the brothers began construction on an 80-room hotel 'with baths' on the present site of the hotel. The Riverside Hotel officially opened its doors to guests on December 17 1936, its rooms overlooking Las Olas Boulevard to the north or the New River to the south. The hotel proved to be an instant success and early guests included Ronald Reagan, members of the Du Pont family and Edgar A. Guest, the well-known Detroit newspaper poet of the time. The hotel's first season was so successful that an addition was constructed in 1937, a six-story wing that increased the number of rooms to 125. In the years that followed, the hotel was the site of many of the city’s important civic and social events. Celebrities and well known politicians passed regularly through the doors of the inviting hotel, enjoying its personalized service and Florida charm.			MORE ART & GALLERY PAGES: Art Connection Las Olas Bellagio International Gallery Blue Gallery Call of Africa Casa Chameleon Hamilton Gallery Howard Alan Events Inspired Interiors J Britto Designs Karanky Gallery Kings Gallery Las Olas Fine Arts Mika Fine Arts Mission Gifts/Upper Room Art Gallery Museum of Art \| Fort Lauderdale New River Fine Art Objets d'Art Pocock Fine Arts and Antiques Regency Gallery Saba Gallery Seldom Seen Gallery Silver Street Gallery Stranahan House Wentworth Gallery

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Las Olas has always been Fort Lauderdale’s most charming thoroughfare.
Las Olas is at the forefront of everything from fashion boutiques and art galleries,
to memorable restaurants, sidewalk cafes and bars.

Running almost parallel to Fort Lauderdale’s New River on its way to the Atlantic Ocean,
Las Olas is a broad avenue divided by a wide landscaped median of flowers and towering shade trees.
Over the canal at the east end of the tree lined median, in the Colee Hammock neighborhood,
are more shops, restaurants, and stores too unique to describe… all worth exploring!
The energetically inclined can even walk down to the beach, where Las Olas meets the ocean.

A few minutes from most hotels and easily accessible by water taxi or land taxi,
Las Olas is a lively, pulsating, world class boulevard. Night or day, Las Olas is the place to be.

Special offers and events, where to stay, where to eat - your guide to Las Olas Blvd, the heart of Fort Lauderdale.
(often misspelled as Los Olas, Las Olas means 'The Waves')