Temple Hotel is no more.

[EastsideAl]

Milner/Ashley and the old porn theater have some value aesthetically speaking.

Anyone who bitches about the demise of the Temple are simply doing a knee-jerk "demolition bad" reaction, and for some, throw in "especially if it benefits Ilitch."

It was actually a big beautiful old Victorian home under the hotel add-ons. And, well, I've been inside that building a few times, and there was still a fair amount of extant detail inside, including a beautiful staircase with carved detail work.

I, for one, am sad to see it go every bit as much as I was sad to see so many other once-beautiful and irreplaceable Victorian houses go in the Corridor and Brush Park, no matter what they were more recently used for. A real waste in my view. A crime against our local history and our considerable architectural heritage, and yet another sadly missed opportunity to keep something special rather than replacing it with either more emptiness or something generic.