Property

Location Information
(for the Hotel Grover)

Name:

Hotel Grover

Address:

109 Sharpe Avenue, South

City/County:

Cleveland, Bolivar County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

1926

No. of Stories:

Registration Information

NR District Name:

Downtown Cleveland (1999)

NR Status:

Contributing

Element No.:

Context/Comments

The Grover was constructed in 1926 at a cost of $125,000 as the Delta's finest hotel and Cleveland's first skyscraper. It had 100 rooms that serviced the railroad employees and other business travelers. The 1930 city directory shows that tailor R.S. Cooper, the Palace Barber Shop, and the Hotel Grover Cafe were located here. In the 1940s and 1950s, the hotel was off-limits to the students at Delta State.