Mr. Neal Prince was the Chief Designer and Architect at the well established Interior Design Firm of WALTER M. BALLARD CORPORATION, in which capacity he had created and supervised the Interiors for the Ponce Hotel. Mr. Prince was Born in Corsicana, Texas and armed with degrees in Architecture and Architectural Engineering from the William March Rice University in Houston, Texas. 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 the President of the Houston 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 York & Sawyer Firm in 1950, 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 Healthcare Architecture, aned switch to Schoen & Hennessy Architecture Firm in 1954 (The Named Partner was the son of Eugene Schoen, known as the Old Man, of who mentored Mr. Prince), 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 Design. 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 work 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 Hotel in Beirut and Mr. Prince was sent out there to work on the interiors and also, because of his background, to represent the Architect, Edward Stone, in matters of Interior Design layouts and finishes. All the furniture pieces were designed, crafted, and/or were manufactured locally, as well. In January 1961, Mr. Prince was hired to work full time as the Director of Interior Design in the Pan-Am Development Department (Pan-Am Airlines) 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 International Interior Designer from the Walter M. Ballard Corporation Firm, and Charles R. Alvey, a famous 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 has gain the deepest respect on the International level. Mr. Prince is a person who uses function with  ethnic 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 produce each Hotel with its own personality and flare but maintained the Corporate highest standards of which Inter-Continental Hotel was formed from. Mr. Prince gains 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 R. Alvey, Kenneth Smith, James Ray Baker and Richard W. Simpson, Mr. Prince created an Industry of Hotel Design and Personalities that reflected each property. Inter-Continental Hotels gain much growth and respect through out 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 all guest, management and the International Organization of Inter-Continental Hotels Group. It is much to be learned from Mr. Prince's long history of experience from his first hotel of the 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 learned and passed down from Mr. Prince's great experience and knowledge. It is important that his experience's and knowledge, which are still called upon as Consultant, to be learned and shared by others and to be appreciated with respect and honor.