LaFrance Hotel

LaFrance Hotel is a historic African American hotel that was opened in 1949 in Delray Beach, Florida

Overview

The LaFrance Hotel is an historic African American hotel that was founded and owned by an African American man named Charlie Patrick.

The LaFrance is located in Delray Beach, Florida in the historic West Settlers neighborhood which is an African-American neighborhood. It was the first black owned hotel located between Delray Beach and Fort Lauderdale in 1949.

During the era of legal segregation in America, the LaFrance provided much needed accommodations for African American travelers. Many of those hotel patrons were African Americans who worked seasonally in the Delray Beach area as maids, butlers, chauffeurs and waiters for the well-to-do seasonal white residents.

The LaFrance was named after the wife of Charlie Patrick whose name was Francenia Patrick. Charlie Patrick became very wealthy investing in real estate and he and his wife were among the black high society of the Delray Beach area.

The LaFrance hotel no longer operates as a hotel but is now a newly remodeled apartment complex for senior citizens.

gollark: But did you *not* read "everyone listens to me" and something about everyone respecting them?
gollark: That's an orthogonal issue, mostly.
gollark: I like "respect" as "recognizing people as fellow humans who you should maintain some basic standard of niceness with". And "respect" as "admiring people based on achievements". And "respect" as "acknowledge people's opinions on things reasonably" and such. I do *not* like "respect" as "subservience"/"obedience" - the "respect for authority" sense. These are quite hard to define nicely and just get lumped into one overloaded word.
gollark: > I don't really like the term of "respect", because people use it to mean so many different often mutually exclusive things based on convenience then equivocate them in weird ways;
gollark: See, I consider this somewhat, well, worrying, given what I said about "respect" for authority figures being pretty close to "subservience" a lot.

References
    • Narrated Bus Tours of Historic Delray Beach, Florida
    • Palm Beach Black Blog by the Palm Beach County Association of Black Journalists

    This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.