Full-service / Detroit
Hotel Normandie
Closed – archive entry · 1890–1927 · demolished 1927
A six-story downtown hotel on Congress Street (1890–1927), on a corner that had held a hotel since 1825; it was torn down for the First National Building addition.
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Quick facts
- Floors
- 6
- Opened
- 1890
03 / The story of this place
What was here?
This corner of Congress Street had a hotel as early as 1825, when landowner Joseph Campau opened one. In the 1870s the Rice Temperance Hotel and the Atlanta House took over, and the two were combined and rebuilt into the six-story Normandie, which opened on April 22, 1890, under proprietors Frank H. Carr and Edgar F. Reeve. It was never the city's biggest hotel, but its guests were known to come back on every visit. The Normandie closed on June 11, 1927, and came down two weeks later to make way for a 25-story addition and an 800-space garage for the First National Building.
- A hotel site since 1825
- Opened 1890; six stories
- Closed 1927 for the First National
- What’s there now?
- Part of the First National Building complex: the site was cleared for its 25-story addition and parking garage.
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