2017-02-092017-02-092016-11http://hdl.handle.net/10267/28647This building was photographed and uploaded to DLynx during the spring of 2017 by the Visual Resources Center.The Hilton Memphis hotel, previously the Omni Hotel, was built in 1974. It was designed by architects Walk Jones and Francis Mah. The building is located outside of the expressways at 939 Lake Ridge Boulevard. It is Modern in style. The building is mostly a large mirror-glass cylinder with an elevator tower. There is an adjoining part of the building which has a step shaped roof. There are large columns on the adjoining portion. There is a small gazebo standing on an island in the middle of the reflecting pool which surrounds the cylindrical portion of the building. To learn more see Memphis: An Architectural Guide by Eugene J. Johnson.Rhodes College owns the rights to this digital material which is made available for educational use only and may not be used for any non-educational or commercial purpose. Approved educational uses include private research and scholarship, teaching, and student projects. For additional information please contact archives@rhodes.edu.ModernLate 20th centuryHotelSteelSymmetryStrip windowColumnOutside the ExpresswaysImageK_9_Omni_Hotel