Avalon Music

The Avalon Hotel is a former hotel in Rochester, Minnesota. Today it serves as office and commercial buildings.

The three-story brick building was built in 1915 on North Broadway near the station. There was operated as North Western Hotel by Sam Sternberg. This was the first kosher hotel in Rochester. In the 1940s it was acquired by the African American Vern Manning and renamed the Avalon Hotel. Until desegregation, it was for several decades the only hotel in Rochester, where African-Americans were allowed. Many visitors to the Mayo Clinic lived in the Avalon Hotel, including well-known figures such as Henry Armstrong and Duke Ellington.

In 1982, the Avalon Hotel in the National Register of Historic Places was recorded. Meanwhile, it was converted into an office and commercial buildings and is known as Avalon Music.