Riverside Hotel (Clarksdale, Mississippi)

Riverside Hotel was a hotel in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in operation from 1944 to 2020. The fourth marker location on the Mississippi Blues Trail, famed for providing lodging for such blues artists as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Ike Turner, and Robert Nighthawk, it was previously the G.T. Thomas Hospital, in which Bessie Smith died in 1937.