The Sheridan Hotel’s three story section at S. 12th Street and Marquette Avenue built back in 1923. The 10 story tower on 11th Street was added in 1926. In the late 1950s, the owners spent about $500,000 to modernize the shorter sections and create a new motor hotel. The tower was converted
for use as working girls’ residences.
Traditionally the hotel catered to permanent residents, and the occasional transient. In 1965 the hotel was proposed as the location for a girls’ Job Corps Center. It would have been used for housing and training about of 500 girls at a two-year cost of $5.6 million. The idea was scrapped, reportedly because of opposition from downtown political and business leaders who feared that such a concentration of young girls would create policing problems. The 450 room Sheridan Hotel was demolished in 1969.
