The Statham Hotel

A hotel, a hospital and a hideout

Genuine Georgia Buiding
Dreamcatcher’s Antiques encompasses three-fourths of the Copelan building, which was built as a bank in 1889.  This side of the building became primarily a general store in the 1920s. 
 
Prior to the Copelan Building, this site boasted the Statham Hotel, owned and operated by the Statham family with the assistance of an enterprising local character named Ned.  Ned’s role was “house-boy, porter, waiter, and general utility man” (Rice, 1961).  He would regularly meet the trains at the Greensboro Depot and solicit customers for the hotel.  He hawked the Statham Hotel as having the prettiest girls in town, often getting into fistfights with rival solicitors. 
 
During the Civil War, the hotel served as a meeting place for women making bandages, blankets, and other provisions for soldiers.  On several occasions, the hotel was a makeshift hospital. 
 
During the years of Federal occupation, a Union officer was stationed in Greensboro for the purpose of controlling the town.  He was so despised that one day a sniper climbed into an upper window of the Statham and killed the rascal with one shot as he passed below.