Boutique / Downtown · Financial District (near Huntington Place)
Detroit Foundation Hotel
independent (Aparium Hotel Group)Independent
A boutique hotel in the 1929 Detroit Fire Department Headquarters in the Financial District. The old truck bays are a restaurant now, and the brass fire poles are still there.
You book on the hotel’s own site. We don’t charge you anything and we never see your booking.
Quick facts
- Rooms
- 100
- Floors
- 5
- Opened
- 2017
- Check-in
- 15:00
- Check-out
- 12:00
- Parking
- 24-hour valet: $45 overnight, $20 daytime.
- Pets
- Dogs and cats welcome: up to two pets, 50 lb each, with a non-refundable $75 cleaning fee.
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What’s on around the hotel?
Concerts, games, exhibitions and markets within a short walk, straight from our own events calendar.
MastodonThe Fillmore Detroit · 18 min walkBuzzcocks: Celebrating 50 Years Of BuzzcocksSaint Andrew's Hall · 12 min walk
Malcolm ToddFox Theatre · 20 min walkTaste Of ChaosThe Fillmore Detroit · 18 min walk
Mrs. Doubtfire: the hit musical comedy lands at the Fox TheatreFox Theatre · 20 min walk
Detroit Opera House - Behind the ScenesDetroit Opera House · 15 min walk
Get Your Detroit Queer History Straight: LGBTQ History Walking TourGuardian Building · 5 min walkDetroit Opera House - Behind the ScenesDetroit Opera House · 15 min walk03 / The story of this place
What’s it like to stay here?
Hans Gehrke designed the five-story Detroit Fire Department Headquarters, finished in 1929, and it served the department for more than 80 years. In 2017 it reopened as a 100-room hotel. The apparatus bays where fire trucks once waited are now the Apparatus Room restaurant and bar, the Chef's Table upstairs hosts rotating chef residencies, and the firefighters' brass poles are still in place. Rooms have reclaimed-wood headboards and murals of local architecture, and the suites top out with the Commissioner's Suite and its pool table. You're a block from the riverfront and a short walk from Huntington Place, so it works for a convention trip or a weekend with your dog.
- 1929 fire department headquarters
- Original brass fire poles
- Restaurant in the old truck bays
- Former names
- Detroit Fire Department Headquarters (not a hotel) (from 1929)
- Architect
- Hans Gehrke (1929 fire headquarters)
- Historic building
- A contributing building in the Detroit Financial District, on the National Register of Historic Places since 2009.
Getting there
Valet runs 24 hours: $45 overnight or $20 for the day. Check the hotel's own offers, too: up to 20% off with a Michigan ID and 15% off with a Canadian one.
What comes with your room?
- Valet parking
- Fitness center
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Pet-friendly
- Meeting space
Eat and drink in the house
- Apparatus Room restaurantAll-day New American restaurant in the old fire-truck bays
- Chef's Table restaurantCommunal dining room above the Apparatus Room with rotating chef residencies
The hotel’s packages
What the hotel offers on its own site: check the exact price and terms there.
- Rise and DineYour room plus a $25 daily breakfast credit at the Apparatus Room.See it on the hotel’s site ↗
- Dapper in DetroitSilk tie and socks from Dandy Detroit, Uber Black credit, $100 Apparatus Room credit and an upgrade when available.See it on the hotel’s site ↗
- The Arrival RitualAn in-room wellness kit made with Meta Physica Wellness Center.See it on the hotel’s site ↗
- DFH by SoftGoodsA stay with Detroit-made SoftGoods apparel.See it on the hotel’s site ↗
- Local LoveUp to 20% off with a Michigan ID.See it on the hotel’s site ↗
- Canadian Resident Rate15% off the best available rate with a Canadian ID.See it on the hotel’s site ↗
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