Queen City Hotel (Blues Trail)

The hotel is gone, and its memory has had to be kept alive by hand. The Queen City stood in the 7th Avenue North district known as down on the block until it was demolished in 2007, after a campaign to save it failed. Residents began an informal festival there in the early 1980s, and the 7th Avenue Heritage Festival drew more than 10,000 visitors by 2010. Even the MDAH marker placed for the hotel in 2010 has been reported missing, so the Blues Trail marker across the street is the surviving one.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tennessee Williams Welcome Center — 1.0 mi
  The 1875 Episcopal rectory where Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, moved to Main Street in the 1990s and now Columbus's welcome center and a National Literary Landmark.
• Waverley Mansion — 6.8 mi
  A National Historic Landmark mansion above the Tombigbee River, home of a plantation family that enslaved more than a hundred people, left empty for half a century before a family restored it.
• Howlin' Wolf Memorial and Blues Trail Marker — 15 mi
  A Mississippi Blues Trail marker and granite memorial on East Broad Street honoring Chester Burnett, who was born nearby in 1910 and became the Chicago blues giant Howlin' Wolf.
• Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge — 27 mi
  A 48,000-acre refuge of bottomland forest and lakes in Noxubee, Oktibbeha and Winston counties, rebuilt from worn-out farmland, with red-cockaded woodpeckers, alligators and winter eagles.

More markers nearby

• Missionary Union Baptist Church — 0.2 mi
• Military Road — 0.3 mi
• R.E. Hunt High School — 0.4 mi
• Joshua Lawrence Meador — 0.4 mi