The Promissory / The Exchange / Suerte

Downtown Roanoke's historic First National Exchange Bank, built in 1912, is one of the city's most ambitious adaptive reuse projects: an upscale boutique hotel, music venue, and restaurant. The marble exterior and multi-story banking hall still read as they did in 1912, but inside, the spaces now serve a different purpose: hotel rooms replace bank offices, a concert hall occupies the ornate two-story bank lobby, and a restaurant fills a modern atrium addition. Architectural details, including spiral staircases and original woodwork, were preserved and woven into the guest experience.
While at 3North, Katie Harrigan worked alongside developer Hist:Re Partners to guide the project through architecture and interior design, ensuring every intervention honored the neoclassical bones of the structure while creating a guest experience rooted in discovery. The result is a property where the architecture itself becomes the narrative.