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