Hotel Ansley

The Hotel Ansley was a hotel that occupied the south side of Williams Street between Forsyth and Fairlie streets in the Fairlie-Poplar district of Downtown Atlanta. It was built in 1913 by Jerome B. Pound, publisher of the Chattanooga News in Chattanooga, Tennessee,[1] and named for Edwin P. Ansley, developer of the Ansley Park neighborhood; an estimated 5,000 guests attended the opening of the $1,000,000 property. The property was originally managed by M. I. and Frank Harrell.[2]

In 1930 radio station WGST moved its studios to the hotel.[3]

By 1931, advertisements for the hotel described it as having 400 rooms and 400 baths, with a radio in every room.[4]

In 1952 the property was sold to the Dinkler hotel chain and was renamed the Dinkler Ansley; it was renamed again in 1953 as the Dinkler Plaza Hotel.[5][6] In 1962, the Dinkler Plaza Hotel refused a room to Under-Secretary-General for the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Ralph Bunche because he was Black. On January 27, 1965, while operating as the Dinkler Plaza Hotel, the building hosted an interracial banquet honoring Martin Luther King Jr. after his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.[7][8]

The hotel was razed in 1972.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Jerome B. Pound". Digital Collections, Local History and Genealogy. Chattanooga Public Library. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
  2. ^ Garrett, Franklin M. (2011). Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1880s-1930s. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3904-7. Retrieved April 11, 2023 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "WGST Radio records". Georgia Tech Archives Finding Aids. Georgia Tech Library. Retrieved June 12, 2026.
  4. ^ "The bulletin of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia". Georgia Historic Newspapers. Digital Library of Georgia. October 24, 1931. Retrieved June 12, 2026.
  5. ^ "Ansley Hotel 2". Restaurant Ware Collectors Network. November 26, 2021. Retrieved June 12, 2026.
  6. ^ "The bulletin of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia". Georgia Historic Newspapers. Digital Library of Georgia. March 29, 1952. Retrieved June 12, 2026.
  7. ^ "Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jacob Rothschild at the Nobel Peace Prize recognition dinner, National Conference of Christians and Jews, Dinkler Plaza Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, January 27, 1965". Digital Library of Georgia. Georgia State University Library. Retrieved June 12, 2026.
  8. ^ "Martin Luther King Nobel Peace Prize Dinner". The Coca-Cola Company. Retrieved June 12, 2026.
  9. ^ "Dinkler Hotels: Bastions of Excellence Set Southern Hotelier Apart". Southern Edition. Retrieved June 12, 2026.
  • Photos of Hotel Ansley at the Atlanta History Center site: Forsyth Building / Hotel Ansley, Ansley Hotel, Dinkler Plaza Hotel
  • Media related to Hotel Ansley at Wikimedia Commons

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