The Kimball House Hotel
Decatur Street at Pryor Street, Atlanta
1906
No photograph of this place in 1906 is known to survive.
Today
The Kimball House was Atlanta’s grandest hotel. On the first night of the massacre the mob went inside and dragged Black employees into the street.
Audio — 1:56
Not yet hosted here. WABE, produced with historian Clifford Kuhn for the 2006 centennial. Permission pending.