The Atlanta Hotel also known as Thompson's Hotel, was one of the original hotels in antebellum Atlanta, Georgia. It stood at the northwest side of State Square, prewar Atlanta's central square, on the northwest side of Pryor Street between Decatur Street (then Marietta Street) and what is now Wall Street (which before the war the railroad track). The hotel was run by Dr. Joseph Thomspon. The future vice-president of the Confederate States of America, Alexander H. Stephens was stabbed on the hotel's steps ("piazza") in 1848 by Judge Francis H. Cone over a political argument. The hotel was destroyed during General Sherman's burning of Atlanta.
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