User:JamieF/Sandbox/Draft:Hotel Metropolitan (Paducah, Kentucky)

The Hotel Metropoltan (also known as the Metropolitan Hotel or Metropolitan House Hotel) in Paducah, Kentucky was the city's first African American owned hotel that provided accommodation for African American visitors to the city. The hotel was listed in The Negro Motorist Green Book and hosted guests like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday among others.

History
Maggie M. Steed and Mamie Burbridge Guise built the Metropolitan Hotel in 1908 at 724 Jackson Street (now Oscar Cross Avenue) in the Upper Town district of Paducah, KY.

The hotel operated by various women until it's closing in 1996. Restoration began on the hotel in 1999 by Betty Dobson with assistance from the Upper Town Heritage Foundation.