West Elm boutique hotel Announced for 2020

[Gistok]

Wonderful news about the re-use of the Bonstelle Theatre as part of a hotel project.

To the original 1903 Albert Kahn designed Temple Beth-El building Detroit's famous theatre architect C. Howard Crane mostly just added a blocked up entrance to the former columned stairs, and changed the altar/organ area of the former synagogue by removing them and and adding a stage and stage house in back.

This is a win-win for the city... adaptive reuse [[words not in the Ilitch lexicon). The restoral of the former facade underneath the Crane facade addition will restore it to its' attractive original look of 1903... although the lawn approach to the entrance was removed during the widening of Woodward in the 1930s.

This is going to look great!!

[p1acebo]

Wonderful news about the re-use of the Bonstelle Theatre as part of a hotel project.

To the original 1903 Albert Kahn designed Temple Beth-El building Detroit's famous theatre architect C. Howard Crane mostly just added a blocked up entrance to the former columned stairs, and changed the altar/organ area of the former synagogue by removing them and and adding a stage and stage house in back.

This is a win-win for the city... adaptive reuse [[words not in the Ilitch lexicon). The restoral of the former facade underneath the Crane facade addition will restore it to its' attractive original look of 1903... although the lawn approach to the entrance was removed during the widening of Woodward in the 1930s.

This is going to look great!!

Wow, that is truly amazing. Not a bad set up either. What would they use the actual theater for though?