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Historic Hotels of America awards Lifetime Achievement to Ken Price, Historian and Director of PR.
Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for recognizing and celebrating the finest historic hotels, has presented the 2018 Historic Hotels of America Lifetime Achievement Award to Ken Price, Historian and Director of Public Relations, Palmer House®, A Hilton Hotel (1891) in Chicago, Illinois.
This prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award was presented at the 2018 Historic Hotels Annual Awards of Excellence Ceremony & Gala on November 1, 2018 at The Broadmoor (1918) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This award is presented to an individual whose lifelong passion has resulted in the preservation and celebration of the history and stories of a legendary historic hotel.
“Ken Price exudes a passion and enthusiasm for preserving and sharing the stories that contribute to the exciting history of Palmer House and Chicago,” said Lawrence Horwitz, Executive Director, Historic Hotels of America and Historic Hotels Worldwide. “We are delighted to recognize his lifetime achievements with making learning about the history of the Palmer House and Chicago interesting and fun to guests of all ages.”
A lifelong Chicagoan and part of the Palmer House team for over 36 years, Ken Price is an integral voice in ensuring the hotel's rich history and story of its famed founder Potter Palmer and his wife Bertha Honoré Palmer lives on for generations to come. He created and runs the hotel's museum, which is filled with priceless historical artifacts. In 2009, Ken created and has led the wildly popular, award-winning ‘History is Hott!’ tour. He has taken more than 32,000 guests and tour goers through The Palmer House's rich history as it relates to Chicago and the nation, and shows them iconic spaces such as the breathtaking lobby and legendary Empire Room, where the likes of Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and Liberace performed. “If you remove the ‘H’ and ‘I’ from History, what do you have?” Ken Price asks frequently. “You have Story!” His passion is sharing the Stories of the Palmer House, especially those from his favorite historians - the hotel guests.
Ken’s path to becoming the hotel’s historian and publicist started at the Chicago History Museum nearly 40 years ago where he immersed himself in the stories about Potter and Bertha Palmer and the other founders of Chicago every weekend for eight months. Prior to his Palmer House career, Ken attended Chicago Law School and served six years as a writer in the U.S. Army Psychological Operations division at Fort Bragg. Ken’s philosophy for sharing history is “what the eye doesn’t see, the mind doesn’t comprehend; what the fingers don’t touch, the heart doesn’t feel.” At the Palmer House, guests learn about the stories by seeing and touching actual historic artifacts and memorabilia in the museum and of course, tasting one of the more than 50,000 Palmer House chocolate brownies baked and served each year using the same recipe when the brownie was first created at The Palmer House in 1893.
“We are proud to be honoring Ken with this well-deserved and respected award,” said Dean Lane, General Manager, Palmer House, A Hilton Hotel, “Ken’s dedication to maintaining the history of The Palmer House and his passion for bringing it to life for our guests is truly admirable.”
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