| The Ellis Hotel | |
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 Ellis Hotel in 2020 | |
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| General information | |
| Location | 176 Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta |
| Opening | 1913 |
| Management | Colwen Hotels |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 15 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | William Lee Stoddart |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 127 |
| Website | |
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The Ellis Hotel | |
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| Coordinates | 33°45′30″N84°23′16″W / 33.7583°N 84.3878°W /33.7583; -84.3878 |
| NRHP reference No. | 09000185 |
| Added to NRHP | March 31, 2009 |
TheEllis Hotel, formerly known as theWinecoff Hotel, is located at 176Peachtree Street NW, indowntown Atlanta, Georgia, US.[1][2] Designed byWilliam Lee Stoddart, the 15-story building opened in 1913.[3] It is located next to200 Peachtree, which was built as theflagshipDavison's. It was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places on March 31, 2009. The Ellis Hotel is best known fora fire that occurred there on December 7, 1946, in which 119 people died.
The Ellis Hotel (previously the Winecoff Hotel) is best known for a fire that occurred there on December 7, 1946, in which 119 people died. It remains the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history,[4] and prompted many changes inbuilding codes. Guests at the hotel that night included teenagers attending a Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y Youth-in-Government conference (Youth Assembly) sponsored by the State YMCA of Georgia, Christmas shoppers, and people in town to seeSong of the South.Arnold Hardy, a 24-year-oldgraduate student atGeorgia Tech, became the first amateur to win aPulitzer Prize in photography for his snapshot of a woman in mid-air after jumping from the 11th floor of the hotel during the fire.[5] The jumper was Daisy McCumber, 41. She sustained multiple broken bones and eventually had a leg amputated.[6][7] Under these circumstances, she still worked until her retirement.[8] She died in 1992.[6][7]
In April 1951, the hotel reopened as thePeachtree Hotel on Peachtree, and was now equipped with bothfire alarms and automated sprinkler systems. In 1967, it was donated to the Georgia Baptist Convention for housing theelderly, and then repeatedly sold to a series of potential developers.[citation needed]
The gutted lobby served as a souvenir shop during the1996 Summer Olympics.[citation needed]
After over two decades of vacancy, a $23 millionrenovation project began in April 2006. The project restored the building into aboutique luxury hotel, called theEllis Hotel after the street that runs along the north side of the building. It was reopened on October 1, 2007.[9]
The 'jumping lady' was Daisy McCumber, a 41-year-old Atlanta secretary who, contrary to countless captions, survived the 11-story jump. She broke both legs, her back, and her pelvis. She underwent seven operations in 10 years and lost a leg, but then worked until retirement. She died in 1992 aged 87, having never revealed even to family that she was the woman in Hardy's photo.
