Hotel Ponchartrain - Old photos
Pontchartrain Hotel
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The Pontchartrain and Soldiers and Sailors Monument
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Work wraps up on the cornice of the Pontchartrain, before the addition was tacked on.
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The main entrance of the Hotel Pontchartrain
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The legendary bar of the Hotel Pontchartrain, where the auto industry was born.
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The south side of the Pontchartrain, looking north up Woodward Avenue from the Detroit River.
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The lobby of the Pontchartrain
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The Pontch on Campus Martius, looking south down Woodward Avenue toward the Detroit River
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The Pontchartrain about 1907, as work was wrapping up
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The Pontch with its addition
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The banquet hall in the 1910 addition, seen here hosting the New England Society dinner in December 1914.
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The Pontch's lobby, dignified and not over-the-top with glitz and glamour.
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One of the Pontch's many, many, many hallways
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Looking east on Fort toward the Pontch. The Hammond Building is at right.
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A different Detroit: The Pontch, far left, sometime between 1907 and 1909, before the addition was tacked onto the top.
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The Pontch as it originally looked, before the 1910 addition was tacked onto the top.
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The Pontch rises at Woodward Avenue and Cadillac Square
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Construction begins on the Pontch. Looking west toward Old City Hall from Cadillac Square.
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The billiards room
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One of the fancier hotel rooms
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One of the cheaper, more basic hotel rooms
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The Pontch, at far left, and looking south on Woodward Avenue toward the river from Old City Hall
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The Pontch, far left, and Campus Martius in 1916. Old City Hall is at far right.
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The Pontchartrain before its roof addition