The Coleman Hotel was designed by architect Willis Irvin and built by contractors C. M. Guest and Sons of Columbia, South Carolina, for Mrs. Luck Coleman Mitchell (1876-1957). It was named for her father, John Calhoun Coleman.
John C. Coleman Hotel, 1936, Swainsboro
my grandmother work in the dinning room Mrs.Abney Iam the Step granddaughter May
My grandfather, Frank Collins Bird and grandmother Ruth Cannon Bird ran
the hotel in the 30’s-40’s. My dad and his brother and sister lived in the hotel as well. Took a trip to visit the John C. Coleman hotel last summer.
The Emanuel County Board of Commissioners is looking for more information on the Coleman Hotel as they begin to renovate it. Please contact them 478-299-9978! They would love to have your story and any photos or memorabilia you may have!
Lynda,
Your Grandfather Frank Collins Bird was my 1st Cousin twice removed ( My Great Grandfather Benajah Wilson Bird was his Uncle) I think this makes you my 3rd Cousin. It was awful he was killed in an automobile accident. I am very interested in Bird Family History.
/r Mike Bird
I used to get my hair cut at the barbershop here when I lived there in the 80’s.
There’s still a barber shop in the corner of the building. I take my boys (9 & 11 years old) there to get a proper haircut when I’m down that way.
I wonder how many locals were ever even in it, except those who might have worked there, back when it was a functioning hotel. When I was a kid in the ’50s and ’60s the po’ folk would hardly go into Powel’s Barber Shop on the north corner of it.
mY MOTHER AND DADDY SPENT THEIR HONEY MOON IN THIS HOTEL IN 1943