History & timeline
From opening in the early 1970s to the day William & Mary students moved in — the full arc of the Hospitality House.
The timeline →Unofficial historical archive
The hotel that welcomed Williamsburg for forty years.
From the early 1970s until Commencement weekend 2013, the Williamsburg Hospitality House stood at 415 Richmond Road — a colonial-style hotel and conference center within walking distance of Colonial Williamsburg and directly across the street from the College of William & Mary. This archive keeps its memory, compiled from the hotel’s own preserved web pages and public records.
“Walk Through Inspiration at Every Turn!” — the hotel’s own slogan, 2001
The archive
What we’ve preserved
The hotel’s website lived on this domain from 1999 to 2011. We’ve reconstructed what it described — rooms, restaurants, ballrooms and all — from archived snapshots.
1972 · 2013
Then, and now
Early 1970s
The Hospitality House opens on Richmond Road — contemporary accounts commonly cite 1972. Brick colonial architecture, built to match the university across the street.
1999–2011
The hotel’s website lives at williamsburghosphouse.com — the pages this archive is built from.
March 22, 2013
William & Mary announces it will purchase the hotel — 318 rooms, a 308-space garage and 3.6 acres — for student housing.
Fall 2013
Renamed One Tribe Place, the building welcomes its first student residents. The hotel era ends; the building lives on.
Please note: An unofficial, independent historical archive. Not affiliated with William & Mary, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1859 Historic Hotels, or any hotel operator. The Hospitality House closed as a hotel in 2013. Details are compiled from the Internet Archive and public sources and may be incomplete or inaccurate — see about this archive.