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The Subway was a regular jazz venue and offered popular late-night blues shows from the mid-1980s until the hotel's demolition in 2004. [1] [2] The Subway Lounge was featured in the 2003 documentary film, Last of the Mississippi Jukes. [3] It has a marker as part of the Mississippi Blues Trail. [4]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
Room service or in-room dining is a hotel service enabling guests to choose items of food and drink for delivery to their hotel room for consumption. Room service is organized as a subdivision within the food and beverage department of high-end hotel and resort properties. It is uncommon for room service to be offered in hotels that are not ...
Jackson is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi.Along with Raymond, Jackson is one of two county seats for Hinds County.The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, a significant decline from 173,514, or 11.42%, since the 2010 census, representing the largest decline in population during the decade of any major U.S. city. [4]
A room at the hotel was used by Okeh Records to record a number of important blues sessions in December 1930. [4] It was in front of the hotel that Jessie Lee Garner was attacked by a white man on a Jackson city bus. [5] In 1954, the hotel was purchased by R.E. "Dumas" Milner, a wealthy automobile dealer and businessman.
Hilton Hotel Jackson - 176 (54) 14 1985 Second-tallest building outside of Downtown Jackson. 13 One Jackson Place: 176 (54) 14 1987 14 Woolfolk State Office Building: 169 (52) 16 1949 15 King Edward Hotel (Jackson, Mississippi) 156 (48) 12 1923 Renovated and converted into hotel, residential, and retail in 2009. 16 The Pinnacle at Jackson Place ...
Belhaven is a historic district and one of Jackson's oldest neighborhoods and cultural centers as well as home to many of the city's oldest houses and buildings. Many popular and successful locally owned businesses are located within Belhaven, including a number of restaurants, shops, stores , and a bed and breakfast inn .
The Sun-n-Sand Motor Hotel, located at 401 North Lamar Street, [7] was opened in 1960 by Dumas Milner, a Mississippi businessman, [8] [3] [9] who named the motel after another one that he owned in Biloxi, Mississippi. [2] [10] In addition to the Sun-n-Sand properties, Milner also owned and operated the King Edward Hotel in Jackson. [5]