New Perry Hotel is a historic hotel in

Perry, Georgia Perry is a city in Houston and Peach counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the county seat of Houston County. The population was 13,839 at the 2010 census, up from 9,602 at the 2000 census. As of 2019 the estimated population was 17,894. I ...

, located at 800 Main Street. It consists of a three-story Neoclassical hotel built in 1925 and a one-story, eight-room

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motel, which was built in 1955 and enlarged in 1959 with a pool and cabana. In 1947 a kitchen and banquet hall were built. Between 1955 and 1959 the rear lobby was converted into the motel office and a card room was built. The original full-height portico was altered in 1965. The round

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s were replaced by square Tuscan columns. It was designed by architects

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;

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was the landscape architect. with It was added to the

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on April 1, 2004. The hotel closed about 2014.

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