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Lost hotel, Detroit, 1900 to 2005

Madison-Lenox Hotel

Demolished in 2005

A drawing of Madison-Lenox Hotel from its recorded size and style. No photo we may share has turned up yet.
Opened
1900
Style
Beaux Arts
Torn down
2005

Designed by Almon C. Varney and F. Carl Pollmar

The Madison-Lenox Hotel stood in Detroit from 1900 until 2005. Here is what it was, who made it and where to find the spot today.

On the map

Then and now

What stands there now

Today

The spot today, from the street Photo: Street View, 2026

A surface parking lot

Mapped as 200 Madison Lot

Detroit's Madison-Lenox Hotel, designed by Almon C. Varney and F. Carl Pollmar, stood on this spot for 105 years. It came down 21 years ago. Today the spot is a surface parking lot, mapped as 200 Madison Lot.

Walk the block on the map
  1. 1900 Opens Madison-Lenox Hotel
  2. 1993 Closes Madison-Lenox Hotel
  3. 2005 Comes down Madison-Lenox Hotel
  4. 2026 Today Surface parking lot
How we know what stands there
  • OpenStreetMap 200 Madison Lot, surface parking lot at the map point
  • County parcel records PARKING LOT-PAVED

Checked October 25, 2026. We never guess: a site no source speaks for shows no answer.

What is there now

A surface parking lot

  • Today Mapped as 200 Madison Lot Source: OpenStreetMap and County parcel records
  • Madison-Lenox Hotel came down Source: Historic Detroit
  • Sold for $4,500,000 Source: County parcel records
See then and now

We checked Wikidata, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Rebuild Detroit's landmark records and the county parcel records on October 25, 2026.

The story

By Victoria Jackson, Editor in Chief Updated

The Madison-Lenox Hotel went up in 1900, during the boom years when the auto industry turned Detroit into one of the fastest growing cities in America.

The design came from Almon C. Varney and F. Carl Pollmar, working in Beaux Arts.

It is gone now, demolished in 2005, and the map pin below marks where it stood.

Timeline

  1. 1900 Built Designed by Almon C. Varney and F. Carl Pollmar
  2. 1993 Closed
  3. 2005 Demolished
  4. 2026 Sold July 14, 2026, for $4,500,000
  5. 2026 Today 21 years since it came down

Where it is

200-246 Madison St.

On this map

  1. Madison-Lenox Hotel This place
  2. The Ashley 160 ft
  3. Plaza Apartments 190 ft
  4. Harmonie Club 190 ft
  5. Detroit Athletic Club 250 ft
  6. Edelweiss Cafe 300 ft
  7. Lincoln Hotel 320 ft
  8. Madison Office Building 360 ft
  9. Hemmeter Building 380 ft

Street map from OpenStreetMap contributors

Who made it

Jerome H. Remick and Company Building, by Almon C. Varney Jerome H. Remick and Company Building, by Almon C. Varney. Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Architect

Almon C. Varney

American architect, 1849 to 1930. Designed the Jerome H. Remick and Company Building and 8 more in Metro Detroit

Also by Almon C. Varney

Architect

F. Carl Pollmar

Architect. Designed the Madison-Lenox Hotel (1900)

More from Detroit in the 1900s

Around the block

Sources

Facts only, gathered from these sources. The story above is written by Rebuild Detroit. Every photo names its author and license where it appears.