Tadoussac offers alot besides leviathans, so book into the landmark 1870 Hotel Tadoussac and stay awhile.

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Stylish beyond its three stars, the Rembrandt Hotel faces the landmark National Bank in the historic centre.

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Los Angeles-based Woodridge Capital Partners is purchasing the landmark San Francisco hotel.

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In other assignments, Chance reported from Mumbai, India, where he covered the 2008 militant attacks on the city and the siege of the landmark Taj Majal Hotel.

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The famed pink hotel was named the first historic landmark in the city of Beverly Hills in mid-2012.

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The hotel is an historic landmark: the ballroom is the former floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and the building used to house the Custom House and the Merchant Exchange.

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Mr. Bacon faces eviction from an apartment he has rented here for the past 40 years, in a landmark hotel that a developer bought last year and is now planning to turn into condos.

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To that end, the Dorchester Collection of posh hotels (the Dorchester in London and the Beverly Hills Hotel, among them) has put together an appealingly indulgent spin on the landmark day.

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The group also has interests overseas, it recently bought a controlling stake in New York's landmark Plaza Hotel.

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