Riverside Hotel 
615 Sunflower Avenue
Clarksdale, MS 38614
662-624-9163

Originally a hospital, The Riverside Hotel was bought in 1944 and turned into a hotel where guests such as John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Ike Turner, Sam Cooke, and John F. Kennedy, Jr. have stayed. A memorial for blues artist Bess Smith, who died in 1937, is located in Room #2 for this was the emergency room where she died when the hospital was open.