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The Untitled Nashville Hotel at Bankers Alley
The Gray & Dudley Hardware building on Second Avenue, where the hotel says the world's first cotton candy machines were sold around 1900.
- Built
- 1899Built for the Gray & Dudley Hardware Co.; the hotel's FAQ says 1899. The Second Avenue Commercial District nomination lists the Gray & Dudley Hardware Co. building as 1895, and 2017 opening press said 1900. Conflict unresolved.
- Style
- Chicago Commercial
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Rooms
- 124
- Area
- Downtown
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district
The story
The seven-story brick building went up on Second Avenue, Nashville’s 19th-century wholesale row, for the Gray & Dudley Hardware Co.; the hotel says the world’s first cotton candy machines were sold there around the turn of the 20th century. It was later converted into the 21c Museum Hotel Nashville, which ceased operating on July 28, 2023 and was replaced on August 1, 2023 by The Bankers Alley Hotel Nashville, Tapestry Collection by Hilton, keeping the ground-floor Gray & Dudley restaurant and art gallery. Owner RLJ Lodging Trust funded a multi-million-dollar renovation, and the hotel relaunched in June 2026 as The Untitled Nashville Hotel at Bankers Alley.
Good to know
- Breakfast: available
- Parking: on-site paid
- Pets welcome
- Address: 221 2nd Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37201
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Sources (4)
- https://www.theuntitlednashvillehotel.com/faq/
- https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/72001237_text
- https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/art-centric-downtown-hotel-to-change-brands/article_ad8470e6-219c-11ee-a422-ffe7edb8adb6.html
- https://travellingforbusiness.co.uk/destinations/the-untitled-nashville-hotel-at-bankers-alley-tapestry-collection-by-hilton-debuts-in-music-city/
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.