Carlton Plaza Hotel

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Carlton Plaza Hotel

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City: Detroit
Address: 2915 John R St
Appears in the 1951-1955 Green Books
Opened in 1924, still in operation as luxury loft apartments

"The eight-story hotel was equipped with 200 rooms and 200 baths, as well as a cafeteria, a barbershop and a beauty parlor. It was "beautifully appointed and equipped with almost every imaginable modern convenience" and "bids fair to become one of Detroit's most popular hotels, admirably located," the Free Press reported the morning after its opening. "

"The Carlton also had an important social significance during the Jazz Age. In a segregated city, wealthy and affluent Black Detroiters during the 1920s and '30s came to the Carlton Plaza to listen to some of the biggest names in jazz. By 1960, the Carlton had become the most popular hotel for upper-middle-class Black people who were still denied accommodations at white-only hotels downtown. " (HistoricDetroit.org)

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