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The Well's Built Museum in Orlando, Florida features over six thousand feet of display
space. It's located in the heart of Orlando's Paramour district. Doctor William Monroe Wells
built the Wells' Built Hotel in nineteen-twenty-six, so African-Americans would have somewhere
to stay during the time of segregation. The hotel today is a museum, it features memorabilia
from its heyday in addition to photographs and historical artifacts detailing the struggles
black people had to go through in Orlando. Visitors can check out a hotel guest room
decorated to look like it did back in the nineteen-thirties, complete with oak furniture,
chenille bedding and decorations. Guests will also see historical reenactments, plays and
spoken word performances. Visitors will get to see old official hotel documents and original
*** League baseball jersey photographs, artifacts, books, multimedia exhibits, slave
records, and other items in the museum. The Museum is open Mondays through Fridays, and
admission is free.