View showing the section of the hotel expanded from the neighboring La Pierre House hotel originally built in 1853 after the designs of John McArthur Jr. A horse-drawn carriage passes on Sansom Street, individuals walk on the sidewalk in front of and enter the hotel, and a man on horseback is haulted at the intersection. Also shows the entrance to the "ladies restaurant", a neighboring building on Sansom Street, and a partial view of the original La Pierre House. An American flag adorns the roof of the building.

Genesee Hotel, Main and Genesee corner. A fine hotel, it served Buffalonians and visitors from 1881 to 1922. During the Pan-American Exposition, it offered $2 daily rates, European plan. It was demolished to make way for the Genesee Building.

There wasn’t much to Detroit when S.K. Harring opened the National Hotel on Dec. 1, 1836, on the southeast corner of Campus Martius. The city was a sleepy hamlet of only about 9,000 people, and nothing that stood downtown then stands today. The hotel would go through a string of owners, each growing and remodeling parts of it.

Then, in 1857, William Hale bought the property and hired the architectural firm Anderson & Jordan to overhaul the building. It was then leased to W.H. Russell, who opened it as the Russell House on Sept. 28, 1857.

With its location facing Washington Boulevard which was once considered the “Fifth Avenue of the Midwest,” The
Hotel Book-Cadillac was built and owned in 1924 by the Book brothers, J.B. Jr., Herbert, and Frank. Frank was born
and raised in the old Hotel Cadillac which the Hotel Book-Cadillac replaced. Built in the 1830s, old Hotel Cadillac
hosted presidents Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

Historic Hotels of the World