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Frederick Soop & The Cass Avenue Hotel

Detroit Free Press , January 12, 1958 The Eisenlord House hotel was built and opened in 1861 by William Eisenlord. Detroit Free Press , December 30, 1885 It became the Windsor Hotel in December of 1885 when it changed hands to John White and his lessee R. J. Wilson. By 1886 it had been sold to E. C. Harvey & Son and was being billed as the Cass Avenue Hotel. Detroit Free Press , June 15, 1886 It went through two other owners before Frederick Soop took proprietorship sometime around 1890-91 and held it until September 13, 1895 when he supposedly retired. The building sat vacant for close to a decade before being purchased by a Kansas City firm which re-billed it the Hotel Morgan.  Detroit Free Press , July 29, 1903 The Morgan was torn down in 1929 to widen Bagley Avenue. One highlight from Soop's tenure was the hosting of jurors from the Hull murder case in 1891. I did find several adverts from the fall and winter of 1896 stating that Soop and his sons were running the St. Jame...