adamjcook, (edited )

Here is a unique one that I snapped yesterday in .

This is from inside the original stairwell of the Kales Building (opened in 1914), looking out, at the stabilized facade that used to be part of the now-demolished Adams Theatre Building.

The facade and the Kales Building are shown here on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3362573,-83.0521193,171a,35y,351.23h,18.18t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

(I took special care when writing the for the image, so consider checking it out.)

adamjcook,

This is a postcard that must have been printed sometime after 1922, by my estimation.

The "Tuller Hotel" on the left is no longer with us.

The orange brick facade shown through the window in the picture above was, as previously noted, part of the Adams Theatre.

The Kales Building is the tall white building in the center.

And the thin building sandwiched between the Kales Building and the Adams Theatre is also no longer with us.

(Source: https://historicdetroit.org/buildings/adams-theatre/postcards)

adamjcook,

So, the plan for the suspended facade of the Adams Theatre is to build a new residential building behind it... retaining some semblance of 's past and keeping with the aesthetic of the surrounding buildings.

This plan (depicted in the image below) is incorporated into an enormous development called "District Detroit".

I have indicated the proposed building representation with a red circle.

More information can be found here: https://www.districtdetroit.com

adamjcook,

I am not sure if I am missing something, but on the postcard in the second Toot above... the sign atop what is actually the Hotel Tuller is drawn as "Hotel Fuller" (with an "F").

Pretty sure Tuller (with a "T") is right, as indicated also in the photograph from 1914 shown below): https://historicdetroit.org/buildings/tuller-hotel

I am wondering if the artist made a mistake. 🤪

wandrecanada,
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@adamjcook Looks like there was a Fuller Hotel too?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/124422446033

Naw. Looks like it was misspelled in a couple instances.

adamjcook,

@wandrecanada Interesting.

But all written references and photographs (where the sign atop the building is discernible) that I have found, so far, refer to it as the “Tuller”.

The total building was constructed in three phases by Lew Tuller between 1906 and 1923.

adamjcook,

@wandrecanada Another interesting, but sad, tidbit...

The Hotel Charlevoix (SHAR-lə-voy) was demolished in 2013 by the infamous slumlord, Ralph Sacks.

There is video of its demolition: https://youtu.be/CIl0nAcQd-w

Since the Hotel Charlevoix was part of Detroit's historical district, Sacks could not tear it down (without permission from the city) when he acquired it in 1981.

So, Sacks sat on it until it literally fell apart.

Sacks' goal all along was to create a surface parking lot.

wandrecanada,
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@adamjcook omg that's horrible! What a waste for everyone.

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