Cortnie's Corner: Exploring Abandoned Detroit

The last stop on the trip around abandoned Detroit last Friday was the Lee Plaza Hotel. It was very cool! My little camera thing died on the 10th floor. So everything from there up was just some stills.

Video of exploration:

There was one spot in the fence to get in, no cutting required and a small opening into the hotel. There were small little tiles all over the wall right where we went in. They were beautiful, a few shimmery copper/gold painted tiles were scattered throughout the hallway. You can see it a little in the beginning of the video.

Through the hallway, to the right of the base of the stairs was a huge and beautiful room that appeared to be a lobby type area. There were remnants of a piano in the room. The detailing was stunning. I would have loved to have seen it in the 20s when it was built.

Also on the first floor was several smaller office type rooms. There was one room that was so pretty. I called it the Gold Room because of the ceiling. There was little cupids on donkeys engraved in the ceiling. There was plaster detailing down the walls.

The bottom of the elevator shaft looked so neat from the first floor:

We explored some of the rooms and climbed to about the 10th floor to explore some more. The view from the 10th floor:

After my video died, we made the climb up to the very top floor. Which was clearly not for guests but only for staff. The remains of the electrical panel was there.Then 1 more flight of stairs and out onto the roof top, I was surprised and delighted to see trees growing on the roof!