Chattanooga · Downtown – East 10th Street
The Dwell Hotel
A small hotel built in 1909 on East 10th Street, later the Stone Fort Inn, now 16 rooms in a mid-century-modern style; no children under 12.
- Built
- 1909Built 1909 as a 16-bed hotel; the hotel calls it the Colonial Hotel, while the Stone Fort Land Company Historic District nomination calls the 1909 building at 118-122 E. 10th Street the Columbia Hotel. Later the Stone Fort Inn.
- Architect
- L. A. Hirtzfield (per the hotel)
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Rooms
- 16
- Area
- Downtown – East 10th Street
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district
The story
The hotel says its corner of East 10th Street held Fort James, a stone fort, during the Civil War, which gave the later Stone Fort Land Company and the Stone Fort Inn their names. German immigrant L. A. Hirtzfield designed the 16-bed hotel that opened in 1909, a three-story brick building with limestone pilasters and a corbelled brick cornice. The current owner reworked it in a mid-century-modern style with the Matilda Midnight cocktail bar and a Solarium event room.
Good to know
- Address: 120 E. 10th St., Chattanooga, TN 37402
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.