Historic Detroit

The Hotel Normandie was one of the city’s venerable old hotels, standing on Congress between Woodward and Bates.

The well-known Campau family built the hotel and leased it to Frank H. Carr and Edgar F. Reeve, well-known proprietors in town. It opened on April 22, 1890, with a banquet and reception. “Everything is new and of the latest design,” the Detroit Free Press wrote. “There is little doubt that it will score a pronounced and enviable success, right from the start.”

An article in the June 9, 1927, Free Press told of the hotel closing its doors to make way for the First National Bank Building and its garage.

More on this forgotten Building of Detroit coming soon.