Hotel Arlington

From 1884 to about 1919, the Hotel Arlington occupied this building and was the place travelers arriving by train or streetcar were directed for decent accommodations. A guest list from one week in September 1890 shows visitors from Boston, Cleveland, Racine, Akron, Toledo, Lansing, Detroit, Wayne, Flat Rock, Ypsilanti, Monroe, and Saginaw. It was known for fine dining and for civic meetings and assemblies, and local boys gathered here when they mustered to serve in the Spanish American War in 1898. In 1920, the building became the new home of Armstrong's Men's Wear after it relocated from another site on Biddle, and Armstrong's occupied it for the next 76 years. Beginning in 1997, an antique store filled the space for a few years. In 2006-2007, Merrill Lynch, a financial management company, restored the building.

Wyandotte, Michigan · United States