In the era of Jim Crow laws and segregated facilities, this hotel for black visitors was built at the heart of the African American business district and was part of a complex that included restaurants, a movie theater, and other commercial enterprises. It is distinctive for its organizing grid of cast stone, roughcast stucco panels, and sawtooth cornice. The two-story Fielder and Brooks Drug Store building, occupied as a Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) office by civil rights workers Michael Schwer-ner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman before their fatal trip to Neshoba County (see EM2) in 1964, stood diagonally across the intersection until it was demolished in 2014.