Sorry, I don't know anything about the boarding house. My time growing up in Indian Village was the late '60s and '70s when that building housed Planned Parenthood [[and the one next door was the headquarters of the local Hare Krishnas). The building itself was built as the James Hamilton house, and was designed by famous Detroit architect William B. Stratton, as part of Stratton & Baldwin. Although it is not part of Indian Village proper [[which does not permit rentals, boarding houses, or commercial or organizational uses), it is a part of the Indian Village historic district.

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