While the 2021 edition of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual 11 Most Endangered Historic Places List isn’t as mid-century hotel-heavy as last year’s (which, among other imperiled sites, included a flamboyantly outfitted Mississippi motor lodge with links to the civil rights movement and a Natalie de Bois-designed International-style high-rise in downtown Cincinnati), there is indeed a lone lodging establishment that made the cut.
First established in 1944 by Mrs. Z.L. Ratcliffe as a boarding house for Black lodgers at the site of the old G.T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital on Sunflower Avenue, the Riverside Hotel along the Mississippi Blues Trail was one of the only lodgings in the
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