The newly renovated Jung Hotel and Residences, a $140 million redo of the famous hotel, opened to much fanfare in 1907. The Jung (pronounced like “jungle”) was party central, playing host to Mardi Gras Krewes, be-seen cotillions, and even a 1964 appearance by President Lyndon Johnson. The hotel became known as the largest meetings and conventions hotel in the South.
Shuttered in 1971, the Jung changed hands four times and was closed twice until it was purchased in 2012 by the New Orleans Hotel Collection, a locally owned company known for breathing new life into historic hotels. Opened in April 2018, the Jung, added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1982, is a showstopper of a hotel at the intersection of historic and contemporary design.
Read more about the Jung Hotel in this story from our June 2018 issue: Jung at Heart: New Energy in New Orleans' Central Historic District.