The Morgan Hotel with Paul Morgan

This video is in part of our 3D Digital Field School initiative. Nine Natchitoches high school students are learning to document buildings with drones, make 3D tours and collect and edit video histories over a couple weeks through this program. It is presented by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) and Northwestern State University’s Advance Remote and Geospatial Operations (ARGO)/Remote Systems Science and Technology (RSST) initiative.
Jason Church, chief of technical services for NCPTT, and JD Cox, NSU instructor, are teaching a two-week summer field school in the Jackson Square area of Natchitoches, where participants are gathering data on historic buildings like Asbury Methodist Church, the Morgan Hotel and other important structures. The area was once a populous Black neighborhood with churches, businesses, cafes, boxing clubs and juke joints.
In this rendition, the students speak with Paul Morgan about the Morgan Hotel of Natchitoches, Louisiana. The Morgan Hotel at the corner of 6th Street and Rue Lafayette and was the only hotel in the city that was available to Black travelers. It reportedly housed boxer Joe Louis and Black GIs traveling through Natchitoches in the World War II era.
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