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Hotel Metropolitan
Hotel Metropolitan. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Hotel Metropolitan Museum is a museum in historic hotel building in Paducah, Kentucky, U.S. The Hotel Metropolitan was the city's first African American owned hotel and provided lodging for African Americans traveling through the area; was a stop on the Chitlin' Circuit, and was listed in The Negro Motorist Green Book. The Hotel Metropolitan Museum focuses on African American history.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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