Atlanta, GEORGIA - Ansley Hotel - ARCHITECTURE: The Hotel Ansley was a hotel that occupied the south side of Williams Street between Forsyth and Fairlie streets in the Fairlie-Poplar district of Downtown Atlanta. It was built in 1913 by Jerome B. Pound of Chattanooga, Tennessee and named for Edwin P. Ansley, the developer of the nearby Ansley Park neighborhood> An estimated 5000 guests attended the opening of the $1,000,000 property. In 1939, the hotel had 400 rooms each with en-suite bathroom and radio. In 1964 The city of Atlanta presented civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with an historic congratulatory banquet, Atlanta's first biracial formal dinner, in the hotel's magnificent chandeliered ballroom upon his receiving the Nobel Peace Prize that year. The hotel was razed in 1972 and the acre of land on which the hotel had been located was sold for a reported $7.7 million in 1988. This White Border Era (1915-30) postcard is in good condition. E.C. Kropp Co. Milwaukee. No. 28718N.