Tudor Arms Hotel
Tudor Arms Hotel is a historic hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. It was designed by Coeveland architect Frank B. Meade in 1929. It opened in 1933 as the Cleveland Club. A 12-story Gothic revival architecture building it is at Carnegie Avenue and Stokes Boulevard where it looms over University Circle.[1]
It had a swimming pool, bowling alley, library, and two ballrooms. Mobster Al Capone was a regular. The club closed in 1939 during the Great Depression and the building reopened as the Tudor Arms Hotel. One of the ballrooms became the Empress Room supper club where performers including Patrice Wymore, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong showed up.[1] In 2009 the Doubletree hotel chain acquired and renovated it.[2][3]
In the 1950s the building was a residence for Case Western Reserve graduate students.The building includes brick and limestone.[4]
See also
[edit]- List of gentlemen's clubs in the United States
- Drury Mansion, former home of the Drury Club in Cleveland
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Tudor Arms Hotel: A swanky gothic revival cornerstone in University Circle". FreshWater Media, LLC.
- ^ Michelle Jarboe, The Plain Dealer (November 5, 2009). "Former Tudor Arms Hotel to be transformed into a Doubletree hotel". cleveland.
- ^ "Maron family's MRN LTD. To renovate old Tudor Arms Hotel in $22 million project". 3 November 2009.
- ^ "Tudor Arms renovation is bringing a highly visible piece of old Cleveland back to life". 21 August 2010.