Freedom Enterprise, xiv (Gotham Hotel)

Identifier: DBB-ITM-02616
Source: Kendra D. Boyd, Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). Pages: xiv.
Source Type: Boyd Research Findings
Activity: hotel
Principal: Gotham Hotel
Mentions: Norwood, Walter; Roane, Irving; White, John
Location: 111 Orchestra Pl
Transcript: Gotham Hotel. Located at 111 Orchestra Place (near John R
Street), the Gotham boasted nine stories and more than two
hundred rooms, several penthouses, an elegant lobby, a restaurant,
a flower shop, and a drugstore on the first floor. Black
entrepreneurs Irving Roane, John White, and Walter Norwood
joined together to purchase the building in 1943. The Gotham
Hotel was widely considered to be the best Black-owned
hotel in the country. In 1963 the hotel was torn down to make way for the
Medical Center.
Title: Freedom Enterprise, xiv (Gotham Hotel)

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