On this day in 1906, the new Zinzendorf Hotel opened on Main Street.
After the original Zinzendorf Hotel burned in 1892, there was a hope that another hotel could be built. In 1905, some of the same shareholders formed the Forsyth Hotel Corporation and announced a new “Forsyth Hotel” to be built on Main Street near Third.
The new 6-story hotel, also named Zinzendorf, had 120 rooms, a lobby, dining room, ballroom, and other public spaces.
The lobby, described as “large, lofty, and well-lighted,” featured terrazzo floors. Off the lobby to the left was a reading room, with a writing room to the right, all furnished with oak furniture of English design.
The hotel was enlarged in 1917, and it closed in 1970.
Postcard courtesy of Molly Grogan Rawls.
I remember this hotel. I left WS in 1963. What stands there now?
The Zinzendorf Hotel was demolished in 1971. The Federal Building was built on this site in 1976, and it was named for Federal Judge Hiram Ward in 1999.
Federal Courthouse