# Radisson Blu Perth

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**Radisson Blu Perth** (formerly known as the **Station Hotel**) is an historic building in [Perth](/source/Perth,_Perth_and_Kinross), Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Located on Leonard Street, it is a Category B [listed building](/source/Listed_building)[1] built in 1888.[2] It opened for business in August 1890.[2] One of the hotel's first managers was Arthur Foster.[3]

The hotel faces [Perth railway station](/source/Perth_railway_station_(Scotland)), for which it is named.[1] It is also close to [Perth bus station](/source/Perth_bus_station). The hotel was formerly owned and managed by the [Highland](/source/Highland_Railway), [North British](/source/North_British_Railway) and [Caledonian Railway](/source/Caledonian_Railway) companies.[4]

The building, made of cream and red sandstone, was designed by Perth's city architect [Andrew Heiton](/source/Andrew_Heiton), who assumed his role some thirty years earlier.[1] He worked with another local architect, [John Murray Robertson](/source/John_Murray_Robertson), on the project.[1] The hotel is a notable example of [Scottish baronial architecture](/source/Scottish_baronial_architecture).[5]

[Queen Victoria](/source/Queen_Victoria) was a regular visitor to the hotel. She had breakfast there on her final visit to Perth in May 1900,[6] eight months before her death. She was in a [wheelchair](/source/Wheelchair) on that day.[6]

In 2021, the hotel joined [Radisson Hotel Group](/source/Radisson_Hotel_Group) and became Radisson Blu Perth.[7] The following year, the hotel closed in order to house [asylum seekers](/source/Asylum_seeker).[8]

## See also

- [List of listed buildings in Perth, Scotland](/source/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Perth,_Scotland)

## References

1. [Leonard Street, Station Hotel, Including Gate Piers](https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB39538) – [Historic Environment Scotland](/source/Historic_Environment_Scotland)

1. [About us](https://perthstationhotel.co.uk/about-us/) – Perth Station Hotel

1. *Official Guide to Perth and Its Neighbourhood by the Tramway Car Routes* – Perth Town Council (1907)

1. [History](https://www.perthstationhotel.co.uk/backup/history.html#) – Perth Station Hotel

1. Yorke, Trevor (2021). *Victorian Railway Stations*. Newbury: Countryside Books. p. 88. ISBN 978 1 84674 335 1.

1. *The Historical Journal of the More Family* (1901), p. 112

1. Chalmers, Robbie (2022-03-29). ["Landmark Perth hotel strikes major deal that could make it five-star venue"](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/landmark-perth-hotel-strikes-major-26580546). *Daily Record*. Retrieved 2023-02-02.

1. Eighteen, Stephen (2022-11-12). ["Two of Perth's biggest hotels shut to house refugees who are living off £7 a week"](https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/perth-kinross/3873172/perth-hotels-asylum-seekers/). *The Courier*. Retrieved 2024-08-04.

## External links

- [Official website](https://www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/hotels/radisson-blu-perth-scotland)
- [Perth, Leonard Street, Station Hotel](https://canmore.org.uk/site/120064/perth-leonard-street-station-hotel) – [Canmore](/source/Canmore_(database))

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