Patten Towers
- Historically Known As: Hotel Patten
- Address: 1 E 11th St
- Vicinity: Georgia Ave
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1905/00/00 | Jerome B Pound | Developer | With the help of Charles Alexander of Dallas, who had been talking with Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce officials about the idea of a new hotel, Pound persuades Z C Patten Sr and nephew John A Patten of the Chattanooga Medicine Company to finance a hotel. | |||
| 1905/00/00 | Z Cartter Patten | Investor | Z C Patten Sr of the Stone Fort Land Company and his nephew John A Patten invest $650,000 to construct a new hotel in Chattanooga. | |||
| 1906/06/00 | Ross Steele Faxon | Investor | Ross Faxon, an investor in Hotel Patten, backs out because of property damage to his wife's real estate holdings in San Francisco after the earthquake. | Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake | ||
| 1907/00/00 | George Baker Long | General Contractor | The Hotel Patten is erected on 11th Street on the site of a large limestone outcropping, which was owned by the Stone Fort Land Company. | |||
| 1908/04/00 | Walter T Downing | Architect | The Hotel Patten is completed, amenities include a billiard room, a bowling alley, a barbershop and manicure parlors in the basement. A dining room, a men's cafe and a bar in the lobby and a ballroom on the mezzanine. | |||
| 1908/04/01 | Gov Malcom Rice Patterson | Guest | Gov Malcolm R Patterson attends the celebration banquet at the Hotel Patten. | |||
| 1908/04/01 | Z Cartter Patten | Financer | Hotel Patten opens to the general public. The price of a room begin at $1.50 a night. Most of the 251 rooms, 225 of which have private baths, are taken sold out. | |||
| 1908/04/01 | Edmond F Noel | Guest | In the ballroom, Hotel Patten's celebration banquet goes well into the night. Dining dignitaries include Tennessee Gov Malcolm R Patterson and Mississippi Gov Edmond Noel. | |||
| 1910/00/00 | John Lovell works at the Hotel Patten as auditor. Lovell will also work as be the manager from 1918 until his death in 1947. | |||||
| 1911/11/11 | William Howard Taft | Dignitary | President William Howard Taft visits the University of Chattanooga and attends a banquet at the Hotel Patten, Chattanooga. | |||
| 1918/02/17 | Walter F White | Work | On his way to investigate the lynching of in Jim McIlherron in Estill Springs, Walter White arrives by train at the Chattanooga Union Station (lost) and checks in at the nearby Hotel Patten, the "Million Dollar Hotel". | |||
| 1920/10/13 | Warren G Harding | Politics | Campaigning to become president of the United States, Warren Harding holds a reception at the Hotel Patten in Chattanooga. The event is open to everyone. | |||
| 1921/03/19 | Mae Murray | Work | Motion picture star Mae Murray gives a newspaper interview at her room in the Hotel Patten. | |||
| 1953/03/14 | Billy Graham | Guest | Billy Graham arrives in Chattanooga for a crusade at the Warner Park Fieldhouse, lodging at the Hotel Patten. Although busy with various speaks engagements, Rev Graham did find time for golf with community leaders at the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club. | |||
| 1953/12/10 | John F Kennedy | Speaker | JFK speaks to the Rotary Club of Chattanooga at the Patten: tax subsidies are no foundation on which to build stable industries. Virginia repealed its tax exemption law in 1946, on grounds that it meant unstable industry and an unstable tax base. | |||
| 1964/01/19 | Jimmy Hoffa | Life | President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa, arrives at Chattanooga's Lovell Field where he is greeted by supporters chanting: "Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy." Hofa stays Hotel Patten during his trial. | |||
| 1975/04/00 | In the 1970s, the Hotel Patten closes but will reopen as a residential facility for the elderly. |
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