"Sometimes a hotel is just a place for travelers to sleep and eat. (We tend to ignore those ones.) Other times, a hotel performs on other levels: as a showcase for creative talent, as a meeting place for locals, as a celebration of regional history. Quirk Hotel, in Richmond, Virginia, hits all of these marks. This stylish new boutique hotel was born out of Quirk Gallery, a mainstay in the city’s downtown arts district. Anticipating the potential of this recently revitalized neighborhood, the gallerist and her husband snapped up a century-old landmark that used to be a department store, transforming he Italian Renaissance-style building into a cool boutique hotel that shows off the work of some of the city’s best artists, makers, designers, and chefs." - Tablet Hotels