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The Hotel Tuller once stood at Adams Avenue West, Bagley Street, and Park Avenue across from Grand Circus Park in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was one of the largest luxury hotels in Detroit, and the first one to be erected in the Grand Circus Park Historic District.〔(Historic American Buildings Survey ), Survey number HABS MI-335〕 The hotel was known as the "grand dame of Grand Circus Park."〔(Patricia Ibbotson ), ''Detroit's Historic Hotels and Restaurants'', Arcadia Publishing, 2007, ISBN 0-7385-5080-9, pp. 17 - 24〕 The site is now the location of a parking lot next to the United Artists Theatre Building. Composer Gerald Marks' band, the Gerald Marks's Hotel Tuller Orchestra, was based at the hotel. The band made several commercially successful recordings for Columbia Records in the mid-1920s.〔(Jon Milan )''Detroit: Ragtime and the Jazz Age'', pp. 81-82〕 ==History== The Hotel Tuller was originally constructed in 1906〔 by Lew Whiting Tuller.〔(Clarence Monroe Burton, William Stocking, Gordon K. Miller, ) ''The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922, Volume 3,'' 1922, p. 870〕 The hotel originally had nine floors; four additional floors were added in 1914. An Annex to the west of the original building was added by 1923, and it was a popular site for conventions and banquets.〔(Owosso Argus-Press - Sep 14, 1961 )〕 A final addition was made in 1929,〔 bringing the room count to 800, each with a private bath.〔 Even by the 1920s, the Tuller had a difficult time competing with other Detroit hotels, and in the 1930s, the Tuller went bankrupt and was purchased by another owner. In 1940, the former boxer Kid McCoy was found dead in his room in the hotel.〔(''New York Times'' ), April 19, 1940, Friday, Page 23〕 In 1959, a fire at the hotel killed 3 people, who were trapped in an elevator when a fire broke out in the lobby.〔(''Miami News'' ), Jan 18, 1959〕〔(''Los Angeles Times'' ), Jan 18, 1959 p. 29〕 The hotel fell into disrepair and was shuttered in 1976 after having been a low-end, extended-stay property. The city of Detroit deemed this building beyond repair, demolished it in 1992, and the site has remained a gravel parking lot ever since. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hotel Tuller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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