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Henry the Hatter – Eastern Market
Detroit's hat shop since 1893, now in Eastern Market: fedoras, homburgs, caps and expert cleaning and blocking.
01 / The story of this place
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Henry Komrofsky opened Henry the Hatter on Gratiot Avenue in 1893, making it one of Detroit's oldest retailers. President Eisenhower wore one of its homburgs to his inauguration, and the shop made its own hats on site until 1985. After 65 years on Broadway downtown, the store lost its lease in 2017 and reopened on December 8, 2017, on Riopelle Street in Eastern Market. Today it stocks Stetson, Borsalino, Kangol, Biltmore and more, and still cleans and reblocks hats.
- Detroit hatter since 1893
- Eisenhower's inaugural homburg came from here
- Stetson, Borsalino, Kangol, Biltmore and more
- Hat cleaning and blocking
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03 / Events
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