Probably over 5 years I started a thread trying to find out more information about a certain building but it was a dead end. I am not in Detroit at the moment, yet my interest hasn’t waned one bit. The building I am interested stood on the site of the current Henry the Hatter location. The building was called the Alt Heidelberg and I believe it was a well-known restaurant in the first few decades of the twentieth century.

I have attached a link to a picture of this German/Flemish-styled building. I think it is an absolute shame that this building is gone but was it torn down to make way for a more “modern” building? Did it burn? I can’t really think of any other buildings in the area that had the same style. It sat next to the Cary Building which still stands at Gratiot and Broadway.

It is the second building in from the left:
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?q1=broadway;rgn1=vmc_all;op2=And;rgn2=vmc_all; g=photojournalism;med=1;size=20;c=vmc;back=back129 0705333;subview=detail;resnum=4;view=entry;lastvie w=thumbnail;lasttype=boolean;cc=vmc;entryid=x-28581;viewid=28581


More Google Books:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZJzhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=alt+he idelberg+detroit&source=bl&ots=TKSb-lDF2a&sig=a7WnmBn0eCXinR0Z0B0rjbyaI-c&hl=en&ei=GpfuTOCYIMX_lgfY9-DLDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0C EQQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=alt%20heidelberg%20detroit&f =false

So, what do we know about this building? Who was the architect and when was it built? When was it taken down?