SEE & DO
Hotel Metropolitan
Now functioning as an appointment-only African American heritage museum, this restored home opened in 1908 as the first hotel in Paducah operated by and for African Americans. The 1940 edition of The Green Book, an annual guide for Black travelers during segregation, listed it, and notable guests included Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Thurgood Marshall.
Lower Town Arts District
By the 1990s, this twenty-six-block, downtown-adjacent area
