Corner view of the Griswold Hotel; men on sidewalk. Painted on building: "The Griswold." In first floor window: "H.D. Smith's cut rate ticket office." Handwritten on back: "The Griswold, formerly the Howard House, at the northeast corner of Griswold and Congress Streets, now about to be torn down, March 1893." Stamped on back: "From Alvord & Co., exclusively commercial photographers, 55 Rowland St., Detroit, Mich., ground floor."