Jefferson Davis Hotel

Alabama, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Jefferson Davis Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama, is a 1927 Chicago School building designed by architect Frederick Ausfeld and named for the president of the Confederate States of America. Originally a hotel, it later housed the WSFA radio studio, where Hank Williams performed in the late 1930s and where African-American preachers including Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr. were permitted to broadcast sermons on Sunday mornings during the segregation era. The hotel maintained segregated operations into the 1960s. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, the structure now serves as apartments for the elderly.