Signature Inn Terre Haute, IN

Please note...this is a location that I have not visited (at least, not yet anyway).

aerial imagery courtesy of Bing Maps

map graphic courtesy of signature-inns.com at archive.org

Signature Inn's Terre Haute hotel joined the chain in 1987.  It would be one of four hotels added to the chain that year and was the only hotel at the time that wasn't built as a Signature Inn.  This hotel was built in 1975 and I have not yet been able to find out what brand it carried back then.

courtesy of Vigo County, Indiana, auditor

The hotel underwent renovations in 1987 when it became part of the Signature Inn family.  The "Signature" canopy was added to the hotel and it appears that most of the rest of the building underwent some exterior work to make the hotel look somewhat like the rest of the locations in terms of the brickwork and the metal cladding that extended down the sides of the building.

courtesy of Vigo County, Indiana, auditor

courtesy of Vigo County, Indiana, auditor

This ended up being the largest hotel in the chain, containing 150 rooms.  Their second largest would only contain 137 (and that was the chain's first hotel; later locations would average 115 rooms)

aerial imagery courtesy of Bing Maps

The hotel was sold in December 2005.  It likely never wore the Jameson Inn banner.  Doing an internet search on the address it appears this hotel flew a few different flags over the years, including America's Best Value Inn & Suites, Clarion Inn & Suites, and Best Western (as shown in the aerial views).  It is currently a Red Roof Inn & Suites.

sources for this post include the Vigo County, Indiana, auditor's website, signature-inns.com archived at archive.org, jamesoninns.com archived at archive.org, and imagery found through Bing Maps.

Photographs of other Signature Inn locations can be found here: Formerly Signature Inn by Ryan on Flickr