Vanity Ballroom (Detroit, Michigan)

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The last of six major ballrooms built in Detroit during the 1920's. It hosted many noted jazz and swing names such as Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey. Men's clothier Harry Suffrin also had a store located in the building before he merged with rival Hughes and Hatcher.

The two story building was designed by architect Charles Agree and featured five storefronts at ground level and the ballroom above. The entrance to the ballroom was off Newport StreetIt was constructed in 1926 in the Art Deco style and the Mayan-Aztec vocabulary and is on the National Register of Historic Places.The building exterior was in the 2002 film Eight Mile.

The building has been vacant many years and awaits restoration.

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