Edwards Hotel

The block has held three hotels. R.O. Edwards opened the Confederate House there in 1861; it was destroyed in 1863, and he built the Edwards House, which opened in 1867. The twelve-story Beaux-Arts tower, designed by New Orleans architect William Nolan, opened on December 29, 1923, and for more than forty years it was the center of Jackson society and politics. R.E. Milner bought it in 1954, renamed it the King Edward and covered much of the original detail in a modern remodel. It closed in 1967 and reopened in 2009 as a Hilton Garden Inn.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farish Street Historic District — 0.3 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Old Capitol Museum — 0.6 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 0.7 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 3.1 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• Ace Records — steps away
• Jesse Robinson — steps away
• Original SEC Office — steps away
• Scott Radio Service — steps away