The Hotel Savarine / Winston Place Apartments

Drove by today and saw that bricks have fallen from the top of The Hotel Savarine / Winston Place Apartments. Part of the sidewalk is now closed. I have not seen any press on this like the bricks falling off the Wurlitzer Building.

It was great to see the rehabilitation progress on the building a couple of years ago. Not sure what stopped it - perhaps the great recession. I am still amazed at how quick all the new windows were broken and their frames striped out of the building once the work stopped. One lonely window is still intact...

Here are pictures & information on the building from Detroiturbex.com

http://detroiturbex.com/content/downtown/winston/

Amazing how fast the place got scrapped and trashed. The first time I went there all the windows were still intact. So sad..

Here are two quick pictures.

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That could be a really cool building if you could extend the arched windows all the way around and loft the upper floors.


But when you look at the early photo on urbex site and compare it to teh recent one it is a shame that the surrounding buildings are no longer there it seems like it was quite the hub at the time.

I have viewed several properties like that ,they were stripped of all of the original woodwork in an attempt to make them new killing the character,gotta love the knock down sprayed over the call box,sigh

Nice molding hidden above the drop ceiling where the safe is, if it is still there,like even if the safe is still there.


The Hotel Savarine Society Orchestra is an eleven-member group that recreates the dance band sound of the 1920's.
The orchestra has been performing before metropolitan Detroit audiences for over 20 years. The Hotel Savarine Society Orchestra borrowed its name from a well-known hotel on Detroit's lower east side. The hotel opened in 1927.
The hotel is just a memory, but the music of the 1920's lives on through the band's performances.


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