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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Huron Hotel Floor Plan

Dusty D picked up a lot of interesting ephemera during research for my last Ann Arbor Chronicle article about the Huron Hotel (Centennial Center). I'll be posting some of these cool items over the next few days as time permits. Here is a floor plan on the first floor of the hotel, labeled with a date that appears to be 1936 (possibly 1986, hard to tell; the lettering font suggests the former, does it not?). It's not much different from the original floor plan of 1923.

On the left is the old coffeeshop that later served as a series of restaurants, most recently Buffalo Wild Wings and is now Korey's Krispy Krunchy Chicken. Those tables look a bit jammed-in, don't they? At top is the big kitchen., and below it, a bar occupying the original site of the reception desk. I believe the big empty room on the right was used as a formal dining room for banquets, &c. I wish I could go back in time and traipse through and see it for myself.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Ypsilanti's Waldorf-Astoria


Like to take a peek inside the building the newspapers used to call "Ypsilanti's Waldorf-Astoria"? It's in today's Ann Arbor Chronicle! (And it looks terrific--thanks to D.!)

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Do You Have Memories of the Huron Hotel? (for possible inclusion in article)

Do you have memories of Ypsilanti's Huron Hotel at Pearl and Washington (now Centennial Center)? I want to talk to you! For just 10 mins or so, for possible quotation in an upcoming article. Tiny or seemingly insignificant memories welcome [and are often the best ones!] :) Please email me at ypsidixit at gmail, (or email a phone # and a good time for me to call) and thank you!