Hotel Claiborne

The hotel's second life made it a museum. Captain Herbert S. Ford collected World War I souvenirs and War Department items, and after his death in 1960 his family gave the collection to the town of Homer. It waited in the old Claiborne Creamery building until 1982, when it moved into the restored Hotel Claiborne. Dorace Maritzky Fichtenbaum donated the building, and a federal Urban Development Action Grant helped pay for the work and for improvements to the downtown square. The 1890 building is a two-story brick Italianate block with a cast-iron gallery and an ornate pressed-metal upper front.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Germantown Colony Museum — 12 mi
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.
• Eddie G. Robinson Museum — 27 mi
  A state museum in a former women's gymnasium at Grambling State University, on the 408-win coach who sent more than 200 players to the pros.
• Lake Bistineau State Park — 31 mi
  A 903-acre state park on a lake the Great Raft made, opened in 1946 with a separate section for Black visitors from 1956, and now known for cypress water and a lake that is drawn down.

More markers nearby

• Claiborne Parish Court House — steps away
• Homer College (CME) / African American Education in Louisiana — 1.6 mi
• T. H. Harris — 5.3 mi
• Arizona Academy Site — 5.7 mi