Picking up from yesterday….. Here is part two…
The Hotel Wardell, now the Park Shelton.
The Whittier, still stading but vacant. Awaiting rehab.
The Fairbairn? Location Unknown.
The Stevenson, Davenport St. near Woodward.
The Seward
The Hotel Briggs. It looks like the Oriental Theatre was in the same complex. Any ideas?
The Fort Shelby, still standing but vacant.
The Savoy, location unkown.
The Hotel Yorba. Still standing in S.W. Detroit, on Lafayette Blvd.
Here is Hotels Part II. Part III Tomorrow. Help me fill in the blanks.
the hotel briggs is now the milner park apartments, located on w.adams near the corner of park. the lobby of the oriental (later the rko) theatre was integrated into the main floor of this building. the auditorium was torn down in the sixties for a parking lot, but the entry lobby still remains today used as storage.
Thanks, I thought it looked familliar… I just couldn’t place it.
The Fairbairn was located at 250 E Columbia.
The Savoy 418-423 3rd.
The Savoy was later known as The Detroiter. It was at Woodward and Adelaide.
Neat pics.
The Savoy Hotel was located on Woodward at Adelaide. Designed by Paul Kamper in collaboration with his father Louis Kamper, the Savoy opened in October 1926. Cost was $4 million. Later known as The LaSalle Hotel and then turned into Carmel Hall, a nursing home, the 12-story building was demolished in 1996 to make way for the condominium development that marks the spot in Brush Park today.
If you own it, might I have permission to insert your image of the Savoy Hotel into a book that I’m completing?
Art Carmichael
I think it deserves mention that, on their 1964 Detroit tour-stop, the Beatles stayed at the Whittier.
WKNR ‘Keener 13’ sponsored the ’64 tour.