Hodges Building

View of the Hodges Building. Sign on building reads: "Gigantic jewelry release." Label on back: "Hodges Building at Griswold & State s/e. During the 1840s Elijah Hawley had a planing mill on this site. The property was purchased by Philetus P. Birch who planned and built the Brunswick House hotel of four stories and sold the property to Henry Clay Hodges & Charles C. Hodges before it was completed. The Brunswick House was a popular hotal [sic] and boarding place for several years. The Hodges brothers closed the hotel about 1889, added two stories to the building and occupied it with their insurance offices, leasing the remainder to other tenants. The Board of Education had its offices on the second floor in the early 1890s. Hugh Connelly's jewelry store was on the corner. Whitney's Opera House, now the Garrick Theater adjoined and across the alley, standing on the corner of Michigan Avenue the Home Savings Bank and afterward the Wayne County & Home Savings Bank has built and occupies two successive buildings. C.M. Burton's Abstract office occupied the upper floors for several years. The Stott Realty Co's to build a tower building on this site."