Floridan Hotel

After its opening in 1927 it was for many years the largest, newest, and leading hotel in Tallahassee, and was the usual abode of state legislators and visitors with state business.

The Tallahassee Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, and other civic organizations met in the Floridan during part of this time.

Typical of large hotels, it contained separate small businesses: the intown ticket office for Eastern Airlines[3] (which moved to the Tallahassee Hilton, now (2017) the Hilton Doubletree, after it opened in 1972), a barber,[4] a women’s bookstore.

A block away from the transportation center of the time at Monroe Street and Park Avenue, and four blocks from the Capitol, it prospered until automobile travel meant that its lack of parking became problematic.

It was renovated in 1954,[5] but at the end it became shabby, and no longer stylish or biggest.