The Inn on Ferry Street offer a bed and breakfast in some of Detroit's finest mansions.
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The Inn falls under the rubric "boutique urban hotel," but it's not
nearly as stupid as that sounds. The building renovations were A-plus,
and the period furniture -- much of it gorgeous art deco stuff -- was
sold at cost by the Masco Corporation, which allowed for a huge step-up
in quality and overall gorgeousness.
Both bedrooms and public rooms -- the Inn functions as a bed-and-breakfast -- are handsome enough to make you smile.
A.B. has a personal reason for his enthusiasm -- the central house,
84 E. Ferry -- the one where you register and eat breakfast -- was the
Hodges family home from 1905 to 1969. As he always likes to say, the
Hodges were something in this town before the Depression.
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