HOMES AWAY FROM HOME

Five hotels with Southern sensibilities

1 Shinola Hotel DETROIT, MICHIGAN Detroit borders Canada, dips below zero degrees in winter, and long epitomized the American Rust Belt. And yet the Motor City, making a cultural comeback, shares a kinship with the South, thanks to the twentieth-century influx of Southerners, mostly Black, who moved here looking for opportunity. The Great Migration gave the world the soulful sounds of Motown—Berry Gordy’s family relocated from Georgia—and much more. The Shinola Hotel, a recent extension of the Shinola brand dreamed up by Texan Tom Kartsotis, expands the company’s celebration of American craftsmanship. It marries a pair of rehabilitated historic structures—a former department store and a sewing machine factory—with three new buildings, all filled with contemporary art. The compound straddles Parker’s Alley, lined with shops and eateries curated by Shinola creative…

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