Budget & hostels / Detroit
Fort Clark Hotel
Closed – archive entry · 1926–1959 · demolished 1977
Albert Kahn's hotel for factory workers on West Fort Street (1926–1959): billed as “a workingman's Statler,” a men-only hotel of about 400 rooms that later became a nursing home.
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Quick facts
- Rooms
- 400
- Opened
- 1926
03 / The story of this place
What was here?
Albert Kahn designed this reinforced-concrete hotel for the industrial workers of Southwest Detroit; it opened on August 1, 1926, and advertised itself as “a workingman's Statler.” It was a men-only stag hotel with shared showers on each floor, but it had a restaurant, barbershop, billiards room and a lobby with painted murals, and a single ran $7 a week. In December 1959 owner Bernard Zimetbaum announced its conversion into The Bancroft, then Detroit's largest convalescent home, dedicated on August 10, 1960. After state violations and a 1976 strike the nursing home closed, its furnishings were auctioned on November 30, 1976, and a demolition permit followed on September 21, 1977.
- Albert Kahn's workers' hotel, 1926
- Billed as “a workingman's Statler”
- The Bancroft nursing home 1960–1976
- Former names
- Fort Clark Hotel (1926–1959) · The Bancroft (nursing home) (1960–1976)
- Architect
- Albert Kahn
- What’s there now?
- The site is vacant land among parking lots near the Ambassador Bridge (Historic Detroit, 2023).
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