The Leland Hotel
The Leland Hotel is a historic hotel in the Downtown district of Detroit . The hotel is on the US National Register of Historic Places .
location
Located at 400 Bageley Street and Cass Avenue, one block from the Detroit People Mover , built in 1987 ; The closest stop is Times Square on Grand River Avenue between Cass and Washington Boulevard.
architecture
The building was built by the Chicago company Rapp & Rapp, who also built the nearby Michigan Theater. With its curtained granite stone facade, the hotel is part of historicism.
history
The hotel opened on April 20, 1927. The name goes back to the founder of the Cadillac Leland company . It houses 800 rooms on 20 floors as well as a ballroom that is no longer in use, a bar, a diner and the City Club nightclub in the basement of the building . On the fourth floor there is still a bar of the Detroit mafia at the time, The Purple Gang , which is why the entire floor is locked and can only be reached by management. The foyer was the reception hall of the Detroit International Auto Salon.
Current situation
Currently only ten hotel rooms are rented to guests. Most of the rooms have been converted into apartments that are available for long-term rent. Furthermore, empty, devastated rooms can be found on all floors, as well as a halfpipe that was built by the residents themselves.
The hotel is currently being renovated. The hotel was temporarily inhabited by the Detroit artist Michael E. Smith. The Leland Hotel is one of the few residential buildings in downtown Detroit. Despite its location on Cass Avenue, which is the street with the highest crime rate in Detroit, residents appreciate the security that is maintained with the help of surveillance cameras and a 24-hour reception.
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Coordinates: 42 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ N , 83 ° 3 ′ 15 ″ W.