Budget & hostels / Detroit
Milner Hotel
Closed – archive entry · 1913–2012
A triangular downtown hotel on Centre Street (1913–2012): it opened as the Henry Clay, became a Milner in 1937 and was Detroit's oldest continually operated hotel when it closed.
Quick facts
- Floors
- 9
- Opened
- 1913 · reopened 2015
03 / The story of this place
What was here?
Built in 1913, with its eastern half added in 1915, it was named not for the statesman but for its builder, manufacturer and real estate man Henry Clay Hodges; Alvin E. Harley and Norman S. Atcheson designed it. In 1937 it went to Detroit-based Milner Hotels, the budget chain that billed itself as the world's largest with its 'room and a bath for a dollar-and-a-half.' When the last guests left on October 31, 2012, it was Detroit's oldest continually operated hotel. Princeton Enterprises bought it that October for $900,000 and turned it into The Ashley apartments, which opened in 2015.
- Opened 1913 as the Henry Clay Hotel
- A Milner budget hotel from 1937
- Now The Ashley, 67 apartments
- Former names
- Henry Clay Hotel (1913–1937) · Milner Hotel (1937–2012)
- Architect
- Harley & Atcheson
- What’s there now?
- The Ashley apartments (67 units), ribbon-cutting March 31, 2015.
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