The Rossonian Hotel

The ghosts of Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington haunt this now vacant Five Points hotel, which once featured a hot jazz club that lured Cassady and Kerouac with the sounds of bop.

The Rossonian Hotel - 27th and Welton

"At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night." - Jack Kerouac, On The Road