Remember When, Chattanooga? The Gateway Motel featured rooms with a view

September 1, 2023 at 9:00 p.m.

by Mark Kennedy

Chattanooga News-Free Press archive photo via ChattanoogaHistory.com / The Gateway Hotel on Missionary Ridge forms an entrance to East Ridge. The motor court was built in the early 1950s at a cost of $100,000.

Although modest in scale and cost, the Gateway Motel on the side of Missionary Ridge became one of Chattanooga's most iconic "motor courts" in the mid-20th century.

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