Eddystone Hotel

The Eddystone Hotel is one of a collection of three Italian Renaissance style hotels constructed by Lew W. Tuller, during the 1920s, a period in Detroit's history that saw the construction of several luxurious downtown hotels built to accommodate the explosive population growth of the city. The Eddystone was part of a grandiose plan on the part of Tuller and other Detroit builders to duplicate the urban character and the real estate market of the city of New York. The hotel was designed by Louis Kamper, one of Detroit's most prolific and outstanding architects, who was responsible for the design of many of the city's landmark buildings.

The Eddystone Hotel is a thirteen story steel frame, brick, limestone, and terra-cotta-clad building located at the northwest corner of Park Avenue and Sproat Street, six blocks north of Grand Circus Park. The hotel's overall footprint is rectangular, measuring sixty-two feet on Park and one hundred and five feet on Sproat. The Eddystone is thirteen stories in height. The building's Italian Renaissance-inspired exterior treatment is modeled after urban palazzos, with a two-story base finished in large 'blocks' of limestone and displaying tall arched openings, a more plain central section above the base, and a highly finished top or attic crowned by an elaborate entablature and cornice.