Inns & B&Bs / Detroit
Mansion House
Closed – archive entry · 1815–1833 · demolished 1836
One of Detroit's earliest hotels, at Jefferson and Cass (about 1815–1833), built partly from the ruins of the 1805 fire, with 30 bedrooms.
Quick facts
- Rooms
- 30
- Opened
- 1815
03 / The story of this place
What was here?
James May built it after the great fire of 1805, partly from the stone chimneys of the burned town. It served as a home, a jail, a courthouse, British quarters and a home again before becoming a hotel, kept from 1815 to 1824 by Major Whipple, a veteran of General Wayne's army. John E. Schwartz raised it, added a verandah and reopened it on May 3, 1827; Colonel Andrew Mack reopened it in 1830, and it closed as a hotel about three years later. With 30 bedrooms, a 70-foot front and a lot running 200 feet back to Larned Street, it looked homelike from the river, and it was torn down about 1836.
- Built from the ruins of the 1805 fire
- Once a jail, courthouse and barracks
- 30 bedrooms; torn down about 1836
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