Manse Hotel

[3][4] Originally a Second Empire-style home built c. 1876 and later a rooming house called the Hotel Terry, the property was purchased in 1931 by African American entrepreneur Horace Sudduth.

[9] The new hotel had major cultural significance for Cincinnati's black community and hosted events including weddings and social and professional group meetings.

Notable attendees included future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, boxer Joe Louis and members of the Tuskegee Airmen.

His interest was not just in the business opportunity; the Manse Hotel was the most ambitious project of several decades of Sudduth's work to advance civil rights by way of material progress.

[1] Musicians and entertainers who stayed in the hotel included Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and James Brown.

[6] Ezzard Charles, the "Cincinnati Cobra", held a press conference at the hotel when he became the world heavyweight champion in boxing in 1950.