Hilton New Orleans Riverside, located at 2 Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a 29-story, 341 feet (104 m)-tall skyscraper. The hotel is part of the Hilton Hotels chain. A portion of the building complex overlooks the Mississippi River front. The building is connected via an enclosed pedestrian walkway with the adjacent Riverwalk Marketplace.
Noted musician Pete Fountain had a club where he performed regularly in the Hilton for some 20 years up to 2003.
Famous quotes containing the words hilton and/or riverside:
“Art thou innocent, art thou immoral,”
—Arthur Clement Hilton (1851–1877)
“Upset at the young wife’s
first loss of virtue
in a riverside thicket,
a flock of birds
flies up,
mourning the loss
with their wings.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)