Hotel Northland

The Hotel Northland was Green Bay's social hub and the city's nerve center during football weekends and other Packers events from shortly after it opened in 1924 through the 1960s. It hosted the NFL meeting held in Green Bay in 1927, served as the base for the Packers' training camp in 1950, and functioned as the league's temporary headquarters when Green Bay hosted NFL championship games in 1961, 1965, and 1967. Curly Lambeau lived there for a time, as did a number of Packers players, and nearly every visiting team that came to play the Packers stayed there into the 1970s. Vince Lombardi's introductory press conference took place there, and at a luncheon in the Crystal Ballroom on Feb. 3, 1959, six days after he was named the Packers' new head coach, he told the media and the team's board of directors, "I want it understood that I'm in complete command" and "I've never been associated with a loser and I don't expect to be now."

Green Bay, Wisconsin · United States