The album cover shows the group - singer Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger - posing under the "Morrison Hotel" sign on the building's window.

“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.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Morrison Hotel, which was made famous after being featured on the cover of a 1970 The Doors album by the same name, will be resurrected to help aid the housing ...

The "Morrison Hotel" album cover featured a photo of the band members, including hell-raising frontman Morrison, with the hand-painted name of the hotel framing them. The release was no hitmaker ...

The image — with legendary frontman Jim Morrison in the middle by a sign advertising room for just $2.50 — graced the cover of the band’s fifth album, “Morrison Hotel.” ...

“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.

Morrison Hotel on South Hope Street has seen better days. A fire at the end of 2024 signaled an anticlimatic end for the hotel immortalized on the Doors' 1970 album cover with the same name.