[wyliepoon]

A couple of UT and SSP forumers, myself included, spent this past weekend in Motown. We wanted to spend a weekend at the legendary, once-abandoned, newly-renovated Westin Book Cadillac Hotel.

Entry on the Westin Book Cadillac on Wikipedia

The building's exterior and interior are two different worlds. The exterior of the Book Cadillac has been thoroughly cleaned. The copper on the roof has been re-done, and at night the building looks spectacular with exterior lighting at street level and on the roof.

View from the People Mover at night.

The interior, however, is completely different. All the public areas and rooms have been redone in a modernist style. Only spaces such as the ballroom, Motor Bar and the Italian Garden have been restored to look somewhat like the original.

Washington Blvd Entrance Foyer

Second Floor Lobby

Second Floor Motor Bar

Pool

Italian Garden

Here's our room on the 17th Floor, with a view to the west. The room is very spacious, the result of mashing two former hotel rooms into one.

Views from the room...

Looking northeast from the 17th floor elevator lobby

The hotel's signature restaurant, ROAST, is pretty good. Here's what we ate there...

Sorry for the overexposure... that's whitefish.

 

[ganjavih]

Detroit seems to be getting more happenin' every year. Great renovation. Yummy looking food.

 

[Edward Skira]

It does? Find 5 people in those pictures.

 

[ganjavih]

It does? Find 5 people in those pictures.

After hanging out in Detroit in the mid '90s, yes, this is progress.

 

[Long Island Mike]

Good Detroit pics from the Westin Hotel....

Wylie: Good DET pics from the Westin Hotel-the Hotel looked liked a good place to stay in DET-I recall on two visits I made to Downtown DET in the 90s that the Downtown area was better then I expected. LI MIKE

 

[syn]

Thanks for the tour Wylie. It's great to see a classic building restored and in use. It's too bad they didn't keep and restore all of the original interiors though. The modern interiors, while nice, aren't unique.