Ghosts Fleeing the Curtis

1960's postcard and matches

  This large hotel and apartment complex occupied most of a downtown block between 1903 and 1984. The hotel tower and apartment tower flanked two other the low-rise buildings known as the Curtis Court. At one time the Curtis had over 800 rooms and billed itself as the largest hotel in the Upper Midwest. In [...]

Call Me at the Curtis!

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This large hotel and apartment complex occupied most of a downtown block between 1903 and 1984. The hotel tower and apartment hotel tower flanked two of the low-rise Curtis Court Apartments. With 800 rooms, the Curtis billed itself as the largest hotel in the Upper Midwest. In it’s later years the hotel added a suburban [...]