This Trust was created to be shared by the public as a depository of the information and historic importance of Mr. Prince's experiences and creativity in his professional life.

Mr. NEAL ADAIR PRINCE was Born in Corsicana, Texas and armed with degrees in architecture and architectural engineering from Rice University. Neal Prince did military service with the United States Army 39th Combat Engineers in Italy. Returning to Texas, he became active in the Houston Little Theatre which produced a prizewinning play that he had authored. After a period as Business Manager of the Little Theatre, he went to the east coast and served for a season as Director of a Summer Stock Theater Company in New Hampshire. A spell in New York with the Actors Studio brought him to the classical quandary of those bitten by the theatre bug: a regular job supporting a regular diet or stick it out on the Rialto. Creature comfort won and through the Architectural League he secured a position with the firm (York & Sawyer) which was noted for the design of hospitals; after several months of observations in New York Bellevue Hospital, Mr. Prince became the firm's expert on the layout and planning of emergency rooms. In due course he decided against a lifetime in health care architecture, switched firms, and was assigned a project to design a motorway restaurant complex for Restaurant Associates, the New York area's most creative force in restaurant operations at the time. The job involved a complete package: architecture, engineering and interior. Mr. Prince took a genuine interest in the latter, and made a seminal career move to Ballard where, at Byron Calhoun's request, he did ad hoc work on a project to remodel the Hotel Jaragua in Ciudad Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, most of which was never carried out, and a modest remodeling of the San Juan Hotel. Ballard had a contract for the interiors of the Phoenicia Inter-Continental in Beirut and Mr. Prince was sent out there to work on the interiors and also, because of his background, to represent architect Edward Stone in matters of interior layouts and finishes. All the furniture pieces were designed from scratch and were manufactured locally. In January 1961, Mr. Prince was hired to work full time as the Director of Interior Design in the Pan Am Development Department with the intention, at least in developing countries, that Inter-Continental Hotel would produce its hotels' interior designs "in house" and be reimbursed at cost under the TSA's. Mr. Prince shortly engaged Kenneth Smith, an interior designer from Ballard, and Charles Alvey, a specialist in graphics and industrial design. Mr. Prince's concepts and ideas were the forefront of its time, after designing and opening 154 Inter-Continental Hotels from 1961-1985, Mr. Prince gained the deepest respect on the International level. Mr. Prince is a person who uses function with style which mostly are lacking in today’s designs. With his ability to design each new Hotel using local materials and talents, such as the native artists and craftsman, he produced each Hotel with its own National personality and flare but maintained the Corporate highest standards of Inter-Continental Hotel. Mr. Prince gained the respect and acceptance by the local authorities.  This in turn avoided any local resistance in building the new Hotels around the world. With the assistance of Charles Alvey, Kenneth Smith, James Ray Baker and Richard W. Simpson, he created an industry of Hotel design and personalities that reflected each country. Inter-Continental Hotels gained much growth and respect throughout the world by those concepts of designs. Still today, his work is unknown on a domestic level, but his concepts and designs are still cherished by guest, management and the organization of Inter-Continental Hotels Group. Much is to be learned from Mr. Prince's long history of experience from his first hotel, Phoenicia Inter-Continental Hotel in Beirut, Lebanon, to his last project doing the Willard Inter-Continental Hotel in Washington, D.C. Much is to be passed down from Mr. Prince great experience and knowledge. It is important that this is passed on in an educational manner. It is important that his experience's and knowledge, which are still called upon as consultant, be learned and shared by others with respect and honor.