Courtyard and Garden Inn are beloved and well-established midprice chains aimed at business travelers.

FORBES: The Motelier

Next comes Ledsinger's big upgrade: a new Choice brand, called Cambria Suites, to compete with Courtyard by Marriott and Hilton Hotel's Garden Inn.

FORBES: The Motelier

It had been a late-nineteenth-century spa, rebuilt, after Roosevelt purchased the old Meriwether Inn and grounds, with low white buildings in wings around a grassy courtyard with walkways, some covered like porticoes.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Warm Springs'