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Lee Plaza
Closed – archive entry · 1927–1997
An Art Deco apartment hotel on West Grand Boulevard (1927–1997): 17 stories, 220 luxury suites and Hank Greenberg among the residents. Restoration began in 2025.
Quick facts
- Rooms
- 220
- Floors
- 17
- Opened
- 1927
03 / The story of this place
What was here?
Real estate star Ralph T. Lee wanted a Fifth Avenue-style tower on West Grand Boulevard, and Charles Noble's 17-story Art Deco Lee Plaza opened on December 1, 1927, with 220 luxury hotel apartments, a lobby decorated by Corrado Parducci, a ballroom, a children's playroom and an aviation beacon on the roof. Tigers slugger Hank Greenberg lived here. The Depression bankrupted both the building and Lee, and by the 1940s it was taking transient guests; the city bought it in January 1969 for low-income senior housing, it joined the National Register of Historic Places on November 5, 1981, and the Housing Commission closed it in 1997. Thieves took more than 50 terra cotta lion heads around 2000–01 and the copper roof in 2005, before restoration finally began in 2025.
- 1927 Art Deco tower, 220 suites
- Hank Greenberg lived here
- Restoration since May 13, 2025
- Architect
- Charles Noble
- What’s there now?
- Being restored into apartments by The Roxbury Group, Ethos Development Partners and Lighthouse, with re-created lion heads going back on the facade.
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