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Hotel Ste. Claire
Closed – archive entry · 1893–1933 · demolished 1934
An eight-story, 140-room hotel on Monroe Street (1893–1933) with a Dutch-Flemish Renaissance look, loved by stage stars, judges and politicians. It's a parking lot now.
Unknown author (postcard, Newberry Library collection) · Public domain
Quick facts
- Rooms
- 140
- Floors
- 8
- Opened
- 1893
03 / The story of this place
What was here?
The eight-story Hotel Ste. Claire opened on June 8, 1893, on land of the Brush estate, designed by Donaldson & Meier in a Dutch-Flemish Renaissance style that looked like a piece of old Europe. It had 140 rooms, and Clarence Burton described it as Detroit's first fireproof hotel. Close to the Detroit Opera House and Old City Hall, it drew touring stage stars, judges and politicians, its bar was known nationally, and from 1915 it was run by former Tigers owner James D. Burns. Prohibition and the new Statler and Book-Cadillac took its business; it became a residential hotel, its last 35 guests were evicted by court order on November 16, 1933, and demolition began on January 3, 1934.
- Opened 1893 with 140 rooms
- Called Detroit's first fireproof hotel
- A favorite of touring stage stars
- Architect
- Donaldson & Meier
- What’s there now?
- A parking lot since the 1934 demolition.
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