Detroit has some gorgeous hotels. They had more, but the Statler and Madison-Lennox were demolished so they wouldn't look bad for the Super Bowl. I can't wait to see your photographs though, they're always something special.
how many buildings are left to tear down? is anyone documenting this? are they allowing people up there to take pics like press and such? when do you think it will be done? Is the bonner building being taking down as well?
do you know what area of the building this is in? is the floor gone in all of the buildings? i guess they have taken the wood of the windos last week...has anyone seen any pics of this or of the inside lately?
Nothing better than the dishroom on a hot summer day. At least this is a manual, the automatic dishwashers are horrible, because you don't have the break as each set is washed - it's constant hot plates. Looks like it's in pretty good condition, though.
80 million is ridiculous; it can be cleaned up for a lot less than that. The Book-Cadillac building in Detroit was projected at 150 mil for complete renovation, and that's a 1,000+ room hotel many times the size of this. If this building can't be rehabbed, it's because there's no demand for it, not because it can't be done.
yes the tracks were used for laundry carts and so forth
i worked there from 1990 to 91 summer job and after school..
the history this place has is unbelivable..i felt so sorry for these people..i remeber going up to wards to get trash or so forth and people would be crying and screaming and talking to walls and them selves..sad place...
Just went to bennett college, and almost got arrested for tresspassing. I was trying to destroy the property, i was just walking in and outside of the buildings searching for supernatural forces. Saw nothing but will tell creepy place, check it out. heard many noices!
It would be my guess that the furnaces produced steam for heat and pipes ran it through the entire facility. Then they also used the same steam to produce electricity in the steam engines. Electric pumps for water, coal as the heat source and the place was off the power grid. Just keep trucking in coal and food.