The Peabody Hotel (NRHP #77001290) sign - Downtown Memphis, Tennessee

The Peabody Hotel, completed in 1925, occupies the entire block bounded by Union Avenue, Second & Third Streets, and an un-named alley in Downtown Memphis. Built to replace the old Peabody which had stood at Main & Monroe Streets since 1869, both hotels were named for financier George Peabody, who had been a close friend of founder Robert Campbell Brinkley. Designed by the architectural firm of Walter W. Ahlschlager, Inc., it was the symbolic center of the social, cultural, and commercial life of the Mid-South region for over fifty years. It was also the largest and most elegant hotel in the south and represented the area's finest example of the opulence, grandeur, and complexity which characterized the era of the grand hotel.

With its grand opening ball in 1925, the hotel quickly established a reputation as the center of social life for the entire region. The Peabody's Night-Cap Club, Venetian Dining Room, and open-air Marine Roof (later partially enclosed and known as the Skyway and where the famous sign in the photograph above is located) soon became institutions among the socially elite of both Memphis and the rich Mississippi River delta areas of West Tennessee, eastern Arkansas, and northern Mississippi. The later 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's saw a steady stream of the wealthy and prominent flock to the Peabody to dine and dance to the music of such entertainers as George Hamilton, Les Brown, Harry James, Dorothy Lamour, Benny Goodman, and the Andrews Sisters. Beginning in 1937, the music of the Peabody's bands was broadcast nationwide on CBS radio.

As David Cohn wrote in 1935, "The Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg. The Peabody is the Paris Ritz, the Cairo Shepheard's, the London Savoy of this section. If you stand near its fountain in the middle of the lobby, where ducks waddle and turtles drowse, ultimately you will see everybody who is anybody in the Delta..."

The Peabody, as it's known to most, was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on September 14, 1977. All the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/bd5ab2a6-0296-46d9-aa8...

The photograph above was taken with a handheld Galaxy S21 and additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.

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Taken on: April 27, 2024

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