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Rhymeswithrawk
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Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 9:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Does anyone know anything about the Cadillac Hotel that was torn down to make way for the Book-Cadillac Hotel? Architect, year built?
Here's a postcard of it:
http://i215.photobucket.com/al bums/cc280/buildingsofdetroit/ Postcards/cadillac5.jpg

Tried searching for it online, but all I'm getting is Book-Cadillac hits.
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Burnsie
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Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 11:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

There's a bit of info on it (and still other hotels that were there before it!) in an early '70s brochure put out by the Sheraton-Cadillac that I have a photocopy of, but can't find at the moment.

Ferry's "Buildings of Detroit" might have some info.
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Lmichigan
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Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 11:57 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

http://www.forgottendetroit.co m/caddy/history.html
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Rfban
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Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 9:03 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)





















Unfortunately, I cannot even remember who was responsible for these photos. I want to say that the website was, "Detroit, The Motorless City," circa 1999? Ultimately, I think they came from the Burton collection.
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Ray1936
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Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 12:05 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The interior shots remind me of the salons on the Titanic. Guess it's just the fashions of the period, though.

No, I wasn't on the Titanic. I mean photos of the salons on the Titanic. :-)
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Hornwrecker
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Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 12:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Those photos are from the Detroit Publishing Co archive that is at the LOC

http://rs6.loc.gov/detroit/det home.html

There might be some more info at Google Books, like in the Farmer and Burton books that are available there.

(Message edited by Hornwrecker on October 12, 2008)
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Burnsie
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Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 12:18 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Kohrman's book points out that when the B-C opened, the Book family dined in the Venetian Dining Room, at the same spot where their table was at the old hotel's restaurant.

I wish I had the dates at hand readily, but there has been a hotel (open or not) at that corner for at least 200 years, IIRC.
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Gistok
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Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 12:20 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I can't find any dates (except demo date) for the old Cadillac Hotel. By the looks of it, it appears to be an 1870's or 1880's construction.

The premier hotel in Detroit in the mid 1800's was the Russell House Hotel on Woodward where today the First National Building is located. The Russell House had as its' guests several US presidents, as well as England's Edward Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII, 1901-11).

Probably by the 1880's the Russell House lost its' premiere edge to the Cadillac Hotel, and was demolished around the turn of the century in favor of the short lived first Ponchartrain Hotel.

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