The hotel, which stood at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue, North, and Church Street in downtown Nashville, was a prominent hotel at which several US Presidents and other dignitaries stayed, as well as being for years the center of Nashville’s social and political life. It was built by Colonel John Overton Jr. and named for his wife, Harriet Maxwell Overton. The architect was Isaiah Rogers. The Maxwell House Hotel was destroyed by fire on Christmas night 1961.
