This Family Has Owned the Same New Orleans Hotel for 140 Years

140 years, five generations, and still no corporate parent.

Stephen Caputo. Illustration: Inc.; Photos: Courtesy The Monteleone

The Monteleone turns 140 this year, still owned by the family that started it. Antonio Monteleone, a Sicilian cobbler, bought a 64-room hotel at Royal and Iberville in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1886. He put the family name on it........

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