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Hotels in Meridian, Mississippi
The large number of historic hotels in Meridian, Mississippi provide insights into the city's growth and expansion, both in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and into the modern age. Many hotels were built in downtown Meridian in the early 1900s to provide lodging for passengers of the railroad, which was essential to the city's growth at the turn of the 20th century. Two of these historic hotels–the Union Hotel, built in 1910, and the Lamar Hotel, built in 1927–have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Still others have been recognized as contributing properties to the Meridian Downtown Historic District. Today, most hotels in the city are located in suburban developments, but there has been a movement to establish a downtown hotel to aid in revitalizing the city's core and support the theater. The Threefoot Building, a former office building, has been considered for renovation and adaptation as a hotel.
==Nineteenth century hotels==
Even before the city was officially established in 1860, hotels had been built, on the strength of the proposed linking of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and the Vicksburg and Montgomery Railroad. After Sherman's raid of the city in 1864 during the American Civil War, only four buildings remained standing. One of those was the Jones House, used as a hotel, at the corner of the present-day 25th Avenue and 5th Street. Another hotel, the Ragsdale House, was built just after the war in 1865 near the train station. This three-story building provided a wooden-covered walkway for its customers leading directly to the train station, a luxury that other hotels did not have. Other major hotels that existed before Meridian's "Golden Age" from 1890 to 1930 include the Phoenix Hotel at 26th Avenue and 7th Street, built in the early 1870s and destroyed in 1876 by fire; the St. Charles Hotel and St. Bernard Hotel, both built in 1881; and the International Hotel, built in 1884. The owner of the International Hotel was Felix Weidmann, who had founded Weidmann's Restaurant in 1870. Today Weidmann's is the oldest operating restaurant in the state of Mississippi.
Two more hotels were built in 1890: the Grand Avenue Hotel and the Great Southern Hotel. The Grand Avenue Hotel was located only a block away from the train station and appealed to families accompanying students traveling to and from the Meridian Male College.〔 The Grand Avenue was damaged, along with a large portion of downtown, by a tornado on March 2, 1906. Several photographs of the damage in the city were taken from the hotel's second floor balcony.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meridian from Grand Ave. Hotel. Tornado damage. )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Looking from Grand Ave. Hotel, Meridian, Miss. Tornado damage. )〕 The building was rebuilt, however, and survived into the late 20th century. It was listed as a contributing property to the Meridian Urban Center Historic District in 1979.〔
The Great Southern Hotel–described by Jack Shank, a local historian, as "the hotel"〔–was five stories tall and contained 150 rooms. Costing $175,000 (today $) and taking up half a city block at 6th Street and 23rd Avenue, the building was the largest and most expensive in the city. A restaurant was located on the roof, and a number of social events were held in second-floor parlors. Luxuries standard in the hotel included ceiling fans and reading lamps in every room, ornate oak woodwork throughout the building, and a public stenographer to assist patrons.〔
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