Budget & hostels / Detroit
Lincoln Hotel
Closed – archive entry · 1917–1949 · demolished 1949
One of Albert Kahn's rare hotels, at Grand River and Centre downtown (1917–1949), with 111 rooms.
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Quick facts
- Rooms
- 111
- Floors
- 4
- Opened
- 1917
03 / The story of this place
What was here?
Albert Kahn designed only a few hotels; he drew this one with his associate Ernest Wilby for Harry L. Pierson. The four-story brick Lincoln opened on October 16, 1917, at Grand River and Centre, with 111 rooms, shops and a big cafeteria on the ground floor. It served travelers and residents for three decades. A demolition permit came through on May 2, 1949, to clear the way for a J.L. Hudson department store parking garage; that garage came down in 2003 and the Detroit Opera House garage replaced it in 2005.
- Designed by Albert Kahn and Ernest Wilby
- 111 rooms from October 1917
- Razed in 1949 for a parking garage
- Architect
- Albert Kahn with Ernest Wilby
- What’s there now?
- The Detroit Opera House parking garage (2005) stands on the site, replacing a 1949 Hudson's garage.
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