Which album by The Doors featured Morrison Hotel? The four-story Los Angeles building suffers significant damage after catching fire 

The former Morrison Hotel was blanketed in flames just this Thursday, resulting in intense damage. According to the Associated Press, the downtown LA hotel became popular because of The Doors and their 1970 album of the same name.

Per Entertainment Weekly, the four-story hotel saw a part of its roof collapse, leaving its structural integrity questionable. The building, which has been unoccupied for over ten years, drew the efforts of over 100 firefighters to extinguish the flames, having been aflame for already two hours by then.

As for which album this hotel was featured on, it was seen on the cover of The Door's fifth studio album, Morrison Hotel. Apart from the album's name being on full display, it also featured the band and lead singer Jim Morrison peering through the lobby window. Per AP and Entertainment Weekly, music photographer Henry Diltz and art director Gary Burden can be credited for taking the image in 1969.

"It was a great old wooden building with many small rooms upstairs where transients and drinkers could sleep it off on a cot for $2.50 a night!” Diltz told the Associated Press on Friday. “I think the beautiful front window with Morrison Hotel in red letters was the best part of it. So did the Doors!”

All we know about Morrison Hotel as the structure's future now hangs in the balance

Entertainment Weekly has reported that investigations into the cause of the inferno are underway, and the future of this 1914 building now rests in the hands of the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety. As for injuries on-site, several individuals managed to escape with next to no injuries, and the three who had to be rescued by the firefighters from the third floor were also safe.

While the Associated Press has reported that the building had become the training site for firefighters in recent years, The Hollywood Reporter claims the AIDS Healthcare Foundation swooped in to purchase the same in 2022, with the goal of converting it into affordable housing. However, the manager had been struggling with shooing away squatters.

David Ortiz from the Los Angeles Fire Department told Fox 11:

"In the fire department, we say there are no vacant buildings in the City of Los Angeles. A lot of the large unhoused community uses these vacant buildings as their temporary residences. Several dozen [today] were seen self-evacuating at the time of the fire.”

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Firefighting crews watched the structure all Thursday night to ensure nothing caught on fire again.

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