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Fayetteville’s Hospitality Queens

These Partners Have Made Fayetteville The Place to Stay

Joan Herring and Mary
Quiros have a talent for taking
historic properties and blending
them with modern amenities,
original art and a flair for interior
design.
They have created some of
the most sought-after rooms in
the county. The rooms’ popular-
ity may be due, in part, to the
exposure gained in local, regional
and even national publications.
Their Market Street Inn,
Grand Fayette Hotel and Red
& White Inn combine to offer
guests multiple choices, but all
with great style and comfort.
The Grand

Fayette Hotel
The pair’s latest accomplish-
ment was to take an iconic Fay-
etteville hotel and update it with
their unique ‘luxurious country
style.’
“We are excited to take this
wonderful old building into its Mary Quiros (left) and Joan Herring (right), pictured inside the Market Street Inn, warmly welcome you to Fayetteville.
Photo by Michael Hart
next phase,” said Mary Quiros.
“This building and hotel have been Booking ring, “and we are very excited to
such a great part of Fayetteville, continue this legacy while adding
and we plan to keep and enhance Information to our guest’s experiences as we
its role in the town’s culture.” continue to draw people to stay
The hotel, formerly known All of the rooms listed in this article can in our uniquely small town.”
as the Country Place Hotel, was be viewed at: Market Street Inn
acquired earlier this year from www.blackbirdfarmtexas.com
longtime inn keepers Clovis and You may book rooms by calling Herring and Quiros also own
Maryann Heimsath. Joan Herring at 713-818-9766 and operate Market Street Inn, a
The two-story Zapp Build- five-bedroom inn a block off the
ing, a structure built in 1900 and The Red & White’s comfortable kitch- Square in Fayetteville.
currently listed on the National en was part of Joan Herring’s update Fayetteville Chamber Music Fes- The Market Street Inn project
Register of Historic Places, is in of Fayette County’s oldest commer- tival. The room will now house is where the women’s partnership
the Romanesque Revival style cial building. an art gallery as well as continue began. Their morning walks took
with decorative brickwork in a to serve as a public space. them through the small neigh-
distinctive checkerboard pattern. even a World War II era ‘speak- A much anticipated wine borhoods of Fayetteville. They
The building stands proudly easy’ before eventually becom- bar is to open on the first floor would comment on the homes and
on Fayetteville’s historic square ing a hotel. in early September as well as a gardens as they walked, and often
and has been home to a depart- Many public meetings and small store in the lobby. lamented that older houses were
ment store, a dentist, a doctor, private parties are held in the “The Heimsaths have been unoccupied and deteriorating.
a photographer, an architect, a hotel’s Moravian Room, which great hosts and ambassadors for “They were such wonderful old
small hospital, a restaurant and is also the home of the annual Fayetteville,” adds Joan Her- buildings that just needed a little

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