Full-service / Detroit
Michigan Exchange
Closed – archive entry · 1835
One of 19th-century Detroit's leading hotels, at Jefferson and Shelby: it opened in 1835 and stayed among the city's top hotels for half a century.
Unknown photographer (Lyon family) · Public domain
Quick facts
- Opened
- 1835
03 / The story of this place
What was here?
The Michigan Exchange opened on June 27, 1835, under E.A. Wales, and in 1884 historian Silas Farmer called it, by a few months, the oldest of the city's leading hotels. A long line of landlords ran it, among them O.B. Dibble and Edward Lyon, who reopened it on January 1, 1847. It grew with a five-story addition fronting 100 feet on Shelby Street and 100 feet on Woodbridge Street, and got a Jefferson Avenue extension in 1868. Library photos show it draped in bunting for the 1891 Grand Army of the Republic encampment, and the western part of the building came down in November 1891.
- Opened June 27, 1835
- A leading hotel for half a century
- Western part razed November 1891
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