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Seward Hotel
Closed – archive entry · 1926
Louis and Paul Kamper's 11-story, 600-room residential hotel near the then-new General Motors headquarters, open from 1926. It's now being turned into senior apartments.
Quick facts
- Rooms
- 600
- Floors
- 11
- Opened
- 1926
03 / The story of this place
What was here?
Work on the 11-story Seward began in 1923 near the new General Motors headquarters, but the building sat as an unfinished shell for nearly three years before it opened in 1926 as a residential hotel. It had 600 rooms, 306 of them apartments, and Louis Kamper designed it with his son Paul. Hank Greenberg and Joe Louis are said to have dropped by. It later became the New Center Apartments, was auctioned off by federal court order in 1963 and came back as the Wellington Place apartments in 1989. The power was cut in 2009, scrappers gutted it, and after a 2011 tax foreclosure developer Kathy Makino-Leipsitz's team started turning it into senior housing.
- 600 rooms, including 306 apartments
- Designed by Louis and Paul Kamper
- An unfinished shell for nearly 3 years
- Former names
- Seward Hotel (1926–) · New Center Apartments / New Centre Apartment Hotel (1950s–1960s) · Wellington Place (1989–2009)
- Architect
- Louis Kamper with Paul Kamper
- What’s there now?
- Being renovated into Wellington Square: about 91 affordable senior apartments plus market-rate units.
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