The Morrison Hotel was featured on the cover of The Doors' fifth album. Celebrated music photographer Henry Diltz made the image in 1969 and said years later that it took a little trickery to pull ...

A fire in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday destroyed a historic building that had been immortalized on the cover of the 1970 album "Morrison Hotel," by rock band The Doors. More than 100 ...

The building, now boarded up, was made famous when it was featured on the cover of the 1970 album “Morrison Hotel.” By Tim Balk A boarded-up former hotel in Downtown Los Angeles that was ...

A former hotel in downtown L.A. whose name graced a 1970 Doors album — and where the band shot the record’s cover art — was badly burned in a fire.

“On this day, December 17th, 1969, we were out taking photos for the Morrison Hotel album cover,” Diltz wrote on Facebook. “We were at a transient hotel in Downtown LA on Hope Street.

A downtown Los Angeles building made famous as the setting of an album cover photo for the legendary rock band the Doors was heavily damaged after fire broke out Thursday morning. The building ...

The Morrison Hotel became popular after The Doors featured it on the cover of their 1970 album, "Morrison Hotel." The album cover shows the group - singer Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek ...

(Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images) The building featured on the cover of The Doors’ 1970 album ‘Morrison Hotel’ has been badly damaged by a fire. Per Variety, the blaze broke out on ...

The former Morrison Hotel, which was famously on the cover of a 1970 album by The Doors, has been significantly damaged by a fire in downtown Los Angeles ...

Jim Morrison Documentary in Works From Gunpowder & Sky and Singer's Estate “On this day, December 17th, 1969, we were out taking photos for the Morrison Hotel album cover,” Diltz wrote on ...