Lee Plaza (Detroit)

Lee Plaza (Detroit)

Infobox_nrhp | name =Lee Plaza Hotel
nrhp_type =



caption = Lee Plaza from just west along Grand Boulevard.
location= Detroit, Michigan
lat_degrees = 42
lat_minutes = 21
lat_seconds = 34
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 83
long_minutes = 6
long_seconds = 6
long_direction = W
locmapin = Michigan
area =
built =1928
architect= Charles Noble
architecture= Art Deco
added = November 05, 1981
governing_body = Local
refnum=81000319cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Lee Plaza (Also known as the Lee Plaza Hotel or Lee Plaza Apartments) is a vacant high-rise apartment building in midtown Detroit, Michigan, located at 2240 West Grand Boulevard. It is a registered historic site by the state of Michigan and was added to the United States National Register of Historic Sites on November 5, 1981. The building was designed by Charles Noble and constructed in 1929, it rises to 15 floors and is an excellent example of Art Deco architecture of the 1920s.

First built as an ornate high rise hotel along West Grand Boulevard, Lee Plaza was an upscale apartment with hotel services. Decorated with sculpture and tile outside, the structure rivaled the Book-Cadillac Hotel and Statler Hotel for architectural notice in Detroit during the 1920s. After economic contraction, the apartment's ownership changed several times, being used as a Senior Citizen's complex before finally closing as a residence in the early 1990s. During its years of vacancy, much of the artwork, internal wiring, fixtures and valuable material has been removed illegally by scavengers.

References and further reading

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*Cite book | author= Sharoff, Robert | title=American City: Detroit Architecture| publisher=Wayne State University Press| year=2005| id=ISBN 0-8143-3270-6

References

External links

*Kohrman, David. Forgotten Detroit [http://www.forgottendetroit.com/leeplaza/index.html "Lee Plaza Hotel"] 2004. (Accessed 19 April 2008)
* [http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=147471 Lee Plaza Apartments at Emporis.com]
* [http://reliques.online.fr/detroit/detroit03.html Interior photograph by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre]
* [http://reliques.online.fr/detroit/detroit09.html another]


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