Hibbard House, Jackson, MI

Otsego Hotel opened in April 1904 on the previous site of the Hibbard House, which was built in 1865 and razed in 1901 after its manager, Henry Haden, died.

As Jackson began to grow as a railroad mecca in the mid-1860s, hotels began to spring up near the now historic depot the trains arrived to and departed from.

One of them - perhaps the most elegant of its time - was the Hibbard House, a four-story structure built in 1865 by Jackson businessman and stagecoach tycoon Daniel Hibbard at what's now the corner of E. Michigan Ave. and Francis Street.

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