Whitney Hotel sold to Angevin & Co. and will be renovated and renamed

STAFF WRITER JAN 10, 2021

The interior of The Frenchmen Hotel, which has been acquired by Robert Thompson's Angevin & Co. Thompson last year left Punch Bowl Social, the chain of entertainment-focused restaurant/arcades he'd founded 12 years earlier and now plans to acquire boutique hotels in New Orleans.

The seven-story historical building on the corner of Poydras and Camp Streets which has been The Whitney Hotel since 2014, will get a complete interior overhaul over the next year and reemerge as a hotel with an as yet to be determined new name. It was built in 1910 as a branch of the Metropolitan Bank, and was later a branch of the Whitney Bank.