Cavalier Hotel

The Cavalier Hotel is a historic hotel building in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The seven-story building was designed by Neff and Thompson with a Y-shaped floor plan and was completed in 1927. Most of its hotel rooms featured views of the Atlantic Ocean, and all had private bathrooms. The hotel also featured dining facilities and opportunities for shopping, as well as amenities such as swimming pools that are now common features of modern hotels. Cavalier Beach Club opened on the oceanfront at the bottom of the Cavalier Hotel on Memorial Day weekend in 1929, shortly before the stock market crash. The hotel was built during the period of prosperity known as the Roaring Twenties, and was a major element of the development of Virginia Beach as a resort area. The hotel was operated successfully until 1942, when it was commandeered by the United States Navy as a training center during World War II. It was returned to its owners in 1945, but the lost years hurt the business. The property was used as a private club for a time in the 1950s and 1960s, and eventually reopened as a hotel. A second wing, originally called The New Cavalier and later known as The Cavalier Oceanfront, was constructed on beachfront property owned by the hotel in 1973. The original hotel structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. The hotel property was sold in 2013 under court

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