Like small-scale banks (several of which survive) and theatres (all gone), small hotels like this is one once dotted Downtown Providence. It was built in the late nineteenth century and remodeled into its present guise by William R. Walker & Son, at exactly the same time the firm made a much more elaborate statement at the Majestic Theatre in glazed terra-cotta. While hotel use has long abandoned this building, the place nevertheless retains the intimacy and charm often associated with modest hostelries.
– 2003 Guide to Providence Architecture
Charming Dreyfus Hotel in downtown providence who was the original owner of the Dreyfus around 1930?
My mother (Helene Philibert) was related to the Dreyfus. She worked at the hotel where she met my father who was a merchant marine and would stay there when he was on shore.