Budget & hostels / Detroit
Library Park Hotel
Closed – archive entry · 1896–1941 · demolished 1941
A dry downtown hotel across from the old public library (1896–1941): 75 rooms, a mirrored dining room, and Carrie Nation as a guest in 1908.
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Quick facts
- Rooms
- 75
- Opened
- 1896
03 / The story of this place
What was here?
Grocer and city councilman William H. Beamer opened it with his business partner Lucretia Fraer in December 1896, across from the old public library: 75 rooms at 50 cents to $1 a day and a mirrored dining room seating 125. It was a temperance hotel that served no alcohol, likely why anti-saloon crusader Carrie Nation picked it when she came to Detroit on August 24, 1908, and gave a speech to the crowd at its door. By 1912 Henry the Hatter had a storefront here. Beamer, famous for keeping no Room 13, sold out in 1919, and the hotel carried on at a dollar a day until wreckers took it down in 1941.
- 75 rooms from December 1896
- A temperance hotel with no bar
- Carrie Nation stayed here in 1908
- What’s there now?
- Bedrock's Z Garage parking structure, built in 2014, stands on the site.
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