Avalon Hotel
The Avalon Hotel is a former hotel in Rochester , Minnesota . Today it functions as an office and commercial building.
The three-story brick building was built in 1915 on North Broadway near the train station. There it was operated as the Northwestern Hotel by Sam Sternberg. This was the first kosher hotel in Rochester. In the 1940s, it was acquired by Afro-American Vern Manning and renamed the Avalon Hotel . For several decades until the desegregation, it was the only hotel in Rochester that welcomed African Americans . Many visitors to the Mayo Clinic stayed at the Avalon Hotel, including celebrities such as Henry Armstrong and Duke Ellington .
In 1982 the Avalon Hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places . It has since been converted into an office and commercial building and is known as Avalon Music .
literature
- Beth L. Savage, Carol D. Shull: African American Historic Places. John Wiley & Sons, 1994, ISBN 0-471-14345-6 .
- Ted St Mane: Rochester, Minnesota. Arcadia Pub, 2003, ISBN 0-7385-3150-2 .
Coordinates: 44 ° 1 ′ 35 " N , 92 ° 27 ′ 47" W.