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The Marsalis Mansion Motel opened at 110 Shrewsbury Road in 1944 to serve African Americans during segregation. Its proprietor, Ellis L. Marsalis, Sr., was the patriarch of a jazz musician family and a Civil Rights pioneer. The motel closed in 1986.
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