Number    01018

Scan Date   7/22/02

Time Period  1919

Subject Matter     Hotels

Location     Monroe, North Carolina

Description 

"The Joffre Hotel, Incorporated:  100 Rooms of Union County Comfort" (from The Monroe Journal, special edition, Dec. 15, 1919 with photo above)
100 guest rooms, a large dining room, rates from $1.25 - 2.00 per day. The hotel was the site of many of Monroe's most elaborate social events.  The First National Bank was also housed in special quarters constructed at the corner of the hotel.
Named in honor of the French general Joseph Joffre, hero of WW I.
 

Photographer (if known)

Notes

Dr. J. E. Ashcraft, president
H. T. Clarke, Mgr.

For a 1993 photo see  http://history.union.lib.nc.us/heritageroompictures/00229.htm

Description and notes revised 5/8/2012 -pmp

Measurements of original photograph

Height  4"

Width   6"

Type of photograph   Black and White