The century-old Resort Bethlehem has been named the most effective historic lodge within the nation for the second straight 12 months within the USA At this time’s 10Best Readers’ Selection Awards.

The nine-story lodge at 437 Principal St. bested a dozen different well-known inns, together with the Peabody Memphis — a perennial champion identified for a each day procession of mallards to and from the foyer fountain — to the Grand Resort on Michigan’s Mackinac Island.

“We could not ask for a greater technique to rejoice our a centesimal anniversary,” managing companion Bruce Haines mentioned in an announcement. “We thank every one who voted all through the 4 week contest interval. We notably thank our associates for his or her laborious work to offer memorable experiences … Retaining our ‘Nationwide Championship’ is a testomony to our total group.”

In a information launch, USA At this time mentioned it was the fourth 12 months its journey consultants nominated the lodge and it maintained its No. 1 spot on the chief board by way of the voting interval. In 2019, the lodge was named third greatest within the nation, and in 2020 it was named second greatest.

“It is a testomony to the laborious work of our unbelievable hospitality groups put into each element,” mentioned Kelly Ronalds, director of room gross sales and visitor expertise. “I am extremely pleased with how laborious they’ve labored all through the pandemic. This award belongs to all of them.”

The group shall be invited to rejoice the win at a particular occasion subsequent month. Particulars shall be introduced inside the subsequent few weeks.

The lodge, a member of the distinguished Historic Lodges of America, a part of the Nationwide Belief for Historic Preservation, opened in Could 1922 as a 200-room group lodge.

It was constructed on roughly the identical spot because the First Home that the Moravians constructed once they settled the land in 1741. The location additionally was the placement of the Golden Eagle lodge for about 100 years.

Over the previous century, presidents Invoice Clinton, Gerald Ford, John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower, together with different outstanding figures corresponding to Amelia Earhart, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali and Ray Charles, have visited.

At this time, the 125-room lodge is a lodging and leisure facility, with 19 suites, two ballrooms, two eating places and a present store showingcasing girls’s clothes and niknaks.

In 2019, Historic Lodges of America named it the most effective historic lodge in its class of 76-200 rooms.