Freedom Enterprise, xvi (Tanzy Hotel)

Identifier: DBB-ITM-02632
Source: Kendra D. Boyd, Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). Pages: xvi.
Source Type: Boyd Research Findings
Activity: hotel
Principal: Tanzy Hotel
Mentions: Tanzy, Benjamin W.
Location: 2476 St Antoine St
Transcript: Tanzy Hotel. Located at 2476 St. Antoine Street, this was one
Detroit’s early Black-owned
hotels, established before 1920. Proprietor
B. W. Tanzy catered especially to newly arriving southern
migrants. The Tanzy had thirty-six
rooms, a dining room, and a
dance hall, and by 1924 it regularly employed fourteen workers.
Title: Freedom Enterprise, xvi (Tanzy Hotel)

Detroit Black Business