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The Algiers Motel at 8301 Woodward Avenue [7] near the Virginia Park district was a black-owned business, owned by Sam Gant and McUrant Pye. It was one of three motels in Detroit owned by Gant and Pye, the others being the Alamo, at Alfred and Woodward, and the Rio Grande, on West Grand near Grand River. [8]
It was destroyed by fire on December 20, 1980, forcing 45 people to flee in their nightclothes, including Baroness von Trapp. The body of a guest was found later in the rubble. [8] A new Austrian-style lodge with 93 rooms was opened in 1983. [1] After the death of Maria von Trapp in 1987, 32 family members shared ownership of the lodge.
Auburey Pollard, 19, Carl Cooper, 17, and Fred Temple, 18, were killed at the Algiers Motel in Detroit, preceding the […] Site of 3 killings during pivotal, bloody 1967 Detroit riot receives ...
The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three young Black men were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city's bloody 1967 race riot is receiving a historic marker. A ...
Race riot in which 43 people were killed [2] Algiers Motel incident: Detroit: 1967-07-25/26: 3: Three civilians shot and killed by police at the Algiers Hotel during the 1967 Detroit riot, dramatized in the 2017 film Detroit: Robison family murders: Good Hart: 1968-06-25: 6: Mass murder of family from suburban Detroit while vacationing at ...
Cross-country skiing at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont The Trapp Family Lodge’s main guest house and nearby outdoor center are at the heart of about 40 miles of groomed trails , and ...
The William J. Fischer Housing Development, better known as the Fischer Projects, was a housing project in Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.It was known notoriously for a series of high-profile murders in the 1970s and 1980s. [1]
[1] Name on the Register [2] Image Date listed [3] Location City or town Description 1: Andridge Apartments: Andridge Apartments: March 15, 1984 (1627–1645 Ridge Ave., 1124–1136 Church St.