Maxwell House is a brand of coffee. It was named in honor of the Maxwell House hotel, a famous hotel in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, which burned to the ground on December 25, 1961. The coffee served there was blended by a Mr. Will Cheek. Supposedly, when Theodore Roosevelt visited Nashville while he was President, he drank a cup of it and proclaimed it "Good to the last drop", which is still a registered trademark for the product. (From the proceedes of the sale of his "Maxwell House" trademarks to General Foods Corporation, Cheek built a large mansion, "Cheekwood", on the outskirts of Nashville, which was later donated to the state of Tennessee and now serves as a botanical garden and art gallery.) The modern "Maxwell House Hotel", several miles from the downtown site of the original in the "MetroCenter" development, was built in the 1970s and uses the name under license from Kraft Foods.
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