Birmingham, ALABAMA - The Tutwiler Hotel

Description: Birmingham, ALABAMA - The Tutwiler Hotel - 1927: The Tutwiler Hotel was a 13-story, 425-room brick and limestone luxury hotel on the southeast corner of 5th Avenue North and 20th Street in downtown Birmingham. It was constructed in 1914 by a group of local investors. It closed in 1972 and was demolished in 1974, Another Tutwiler Hotel, named for the original, opened in 1986 in the former Ridgely Apartments. [that] architectural ingenuity, aided by skilled labor, has so far devised… consisting of 325 rooms, equipped with bath or shower, fire alarms and telephone.” Rates ranged from $1.50 for a single room without bath to $6.00 for a double room with bath. 70 chefs were hired to staff the hotel kitchen. For the next 60 years, The Tutwiler was a hub of Birmingham business, social, and political circles, playing host to hundreds of celebrities, politicians, and dignitaries. A reviewing stand for the largest annual Veterans Day Parade in the country was erected outside the Tutwiler. President Warren G. Harding presided over a luncheon in his honor at the hotel during Birmingham’s semicentennial in 1921. Charles Lindbergh held a 1927 press conference in its Louis XIV Suite. In 1937 actress Tallulah Bankhead threw a rousing post-wedding party in the Continental Room, which for decades hosted lunches and dinners with live big-band music six days a week. In the 1920s, numerous organizations used rooms at the Tutwiler for their meetings, including the Birmingham Automobile Club, the Rotary Club of Birmingham, and the Old Colony Club. The lobby bristled with small shops and offices, including a Western Union telegraph office, the Tutwiler Cigar Stand, Tutwiler Barber Shop, Tutwiler Flower Shop, Tutwiler Drug Store, Bonner De Luxe Tours, a beauty parlor, stenographer, and various physicians' practices. Novelist Jack Bethea hanged himself in a room at the Tutwiler in July, 1928. This White Border Era postcard, mailed in 1927, is in good condition but shows some edge wand corner wear. There is also some soiling. C. T. American Art Colored. No. 51362. Published by Faulkner Novelty Co. Birmingham, Ala.

Price: 8.5 USD

Location: Brooklyn, New York

End Time: 2025-01-09T02:47:07.000Z

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