Photographs spring 2002: Courtesy of Phil Edwards
 
Murfreesboro, Tennessee -- 2424 South Church St (Southgate Blvd)
 

Located south and east of Nashville, opened in 1974 the 80-room two-story classically configured Mansard style Murfreesboro Motor Lodge is the LAST operating Howard Johnson Motor Lodge in the Volunteer State as of February 2006. Here is a link to the property from 2006: http://www.tndirectory.com/hjmurfreesboro/

While its Restaurant long ago succumbed to a conversion, it at least managed to hang on to its orange Roof. Unfortunately the Motor Lodge's Mansard was sheared off by the time of Phil Edwards' 2002 stop at the site. The guest buildings look to have been built in abbreviated balcony/style that was common to other HJ projects of the era.