The Best Western Plus Windsor Hotel at 125 West Lamar Street in

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was built in 1892 to attract winter visitors from the

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. The five-story Queen Anne hotel was designed by a Swedish-born architect, Gottfried Leonard Norrman, working in

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. It featured a hundred rooms and a three-story atrium. It closed in the early 1970s, but later reopened with 53 guest rooms. The Windsor is a

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within the National Register Americus Historic District. Vice-President

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gave a speech from the balcony in 1917, and the soon-to-be New York Governor

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spoke in the dining room in 1928. Former President

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(born in nearby

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) has been a supporter of the hotel since its reopening.

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