Four Flags Hotel

The Four Flags Hotel opened with much fanfare on July 6, 1926. The newly formed Niles Hotel Corporation had raised $350,000 to build the hotel on the site of the Pike House hostelry. Chicago architect Charles W. Nicol designed it, and it was touted as fireproof and modern. Its name was the first to recall the four nations that asserted sovereignty over the area: France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States. According to local legend, Al Capone stayed at the Four Flags.

Niles, Michigan · United States