Walnut Hills has been home to a significant middle- and working-class Black community since the 1850s. In 1931, African American entrepreneur Horace Sudduth bought 1004 Chapel Street and then the row of buildings across Monfort, naming them the Manse Hotel and Annex. Throughout the 1940s, hotel dinner parties could move next door to the Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs house for dancing. A large addition to the Manse in 1950 created its own ballroom, 24-hour coffee shop, upgraded Sweetbriar Restaurant, and more guest rooms. It appeared in the Negro Motorist’s Green Book between 1940 and 1963, providing local, transient, and residential guests both catered meetings and top entertainment during the last decades of segregation. It closed in the late 1960s when the economic need for a first-class segregated hotel disappeared in the age of Black Power. Horace Sudduth, born in Covington, Kentucky, on August 8, 1888, graduated from its segregated high school in 1906 and became a Pullman Porter. In 1909, he settled in Cincinnati’s West End, opened Sudduth Real Estate, and over the next decade operated the Lincoln Theater and other businesses. He raised funds for the Black Ninth Street YMCA in 1916, briefly roomed there, served on its board for decades, and also nurtured Black Ys nationally. Around 1917, he expanded his real estate practice to include Walnut Hills, and in 1926 he moved there with his family. He founded Industrial Building and Loan to provide savings accounts and mortgages when redlining discouraged Black home ownership, and his Walnut Hills Enterprise Company and Creative Realty sponsored business and employment opportunities. In the 1950s, he revitalized Booker T. Washington’s National Negro Business League.