Fayette National Bank Building

Lexington, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The Fayette National Bank Building in Lexington, Kentucky, is a fifteen-story Beaux-Arts high-rise designed by the renowned architectural firm McKim, Mead & White and constructed between 1913 and 1914 by the George A. Fuller Company. Originally serving as a bank, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 2016, it underwent a comprehensive conversion into the 21c Museum Hotel, a transformation exceeding $43 million in cost that reconfigured the historic structure to accommodate 88 hotel rooms, dining facilities, and museum galleries. The hotel opened to the public in December 2016 and was subsequently inducted into Historic Hotels of America in 2019.