Thank you very much. The "Barclay Inn" clue led me to this:

http://patch.com/michigan/birmingham...ing-this-month

http://patch.com/michigan/birmingham...ch-into-august

I believe this may be the place I was looking for, especially if it was, in fact, a Holiday Inn back in the '80s[[?). It definitely was a Holiday Inn at some point in the past, according to the article.