Ross Hotel - 1888

818 Georgia Avenue

Originally, it was a boarding house known as the Delmonico Hotel. In 1925, this building was converted to the 70-room Ross Hotel. Following the Scopes “Monkey Trial,” William Jennings Bryan spent his last night at the Ross, before dying the following day in Dayton, Tennessee. Today, a restaurant operates on the first floor and the upper floors remain vacant and subject to ongoing deterioration.