travel42 Hotel Review: The Dewberry

The Dewberry travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Opposite Marion Square, the former L. Mendel Rivers Federal Building is a stalwart modernist movement. It was commissioned by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and served as a sprawling federal office building until suffering significant damage by Hurricane Floyd in 1999. The building lay fallow for years. The battle to get it back and running was something of a tabloid affair, and the gossip never seems to stop. Developer John Dewberry, hence its name, and his renova...