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Jackson. 1928. The Walthall Hotel began sometime in the early 1920's (I haven't found an exact date) when the Jackson Baking Company, a large bakery, was built on the hotel's future site in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. The bakery had a tea room on the first floor, which attracted considerable business. A group of enterprising businessmen saw opportunity in the popular tea room, and decided that a hotel would be better suited to the site than the bakery. They hired local Jackson, Mississippi architect N. W. Overstreet, who designed a remodel and addition that would convert the original 3-floor bakery into a new 8-floor hotel. The new hotel was named the Walthall Hotel after local Civil War hero and politician Edward Cary Walthall, who had died about 30 years earlier. The new hotel opened in 1928. The tea room became the dining room of the Waltham Hotel.