One Tribe Place.
The same bricks at 415 Richmond Road — now home to William & Mary students.
When William & Mary bought the Hospitality House in 2013, the Board of Visitors gave the building a new name on April 19: One Tribe Place. That fall, the first students moved into rooms that had hosted travellers for four decades.
Hotel bones, dorm life
The conversion kept the hotel’s architecture — the brick exterior that W&M’s own campus historians note was built to match the university across the street — and much of its hotel character inside. It is the rare residence hall with a hotel’s floor plan: 318 former guest rooms, a 308-space parking garage underneath, and the footprint of ballrooms and restaurants below.
Why the university wanted it
The 2013 purchase answered two chronic campus needs at once — a student-housing waitlist and parking — with a 3.6-acre property literally across the street from Zable Stadium. It was financed with 20-year Commonwealth of Virginia bonds, repaid from housing fees rather than university funds.
So the building never stopped hosting; the guests just got younger, and their stays got longer. If you lived in One Tribe Place — or checked into the same room decades earlier — we’d love the story.