What is the address of the hotel featured on the cover of 'Morrison Hotel'?

The hotel featured on the cover of The Doors’ Morrison Hotel is at 1246 South Hope Street in Los Angeles.

The building was a real hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, not a set created for the album. Photographer Henry Diltz took the famous front-cover image through the hotel’s street-facing window, capturing Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore behind the red “Morrison Hotel” lettering.

The band had not received permission to photograph inside. When the desk clerk stepped away, the musicians quickly moved into position while Diltz took the picture. That improvised approach became one of rock’s most recognizable album-cover images. The rear cover shows another nearby location, the Hard Rock Café at 300 East 5th Street, which is an easy detail to confuse with the hotel’s address.

Morrison Hotel was released in 1970 as The Doors’ fifth studio album and was widely viewed as a return to a tougher blues-rock sound after The Soft Parade.