Grand Getaways: The Hermitage Hotel

One hundred years ago, our nation was embroiled in a tumultuous battle over women’s right to vote. Despite the discord, the dissenting sides could agree upon one thing: the renowned Hermitage Hotel, sitting in the shadow of Tennessee’s Capitol, made an ideal headquarters.

The magnificent Beaux-Arts structure, with its elegant high-ceiling lobby and painted glass skylights, was only a decade old when both pro- and anti-suffrage leaders set up camp there in the summer of 1920 for Tennessee’s approval that led to final