Nonfiction, Coffee Table Book. In Hotels to Remember, author and artist Mary Montague Sikes showcases twenty classic hotels a tour of North American hostelries offering the pinnacle of hospitality, gracious decor, fine dining, R & R options, and fine art collections. All the hotels in this volume are inextricably entwined with our heritage and our resilience as a people. Some have hosted our founding fathers, some stood as outposts of civilization along the railroad's push across our continent, witnessed the ravages of wars, both with foreign foes and among ourselves, endured fire, neglect and the effects of fickle economic times. Yet these grand ladies endured, emerging again and again, polished and preened to welcome an array of gu