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-====== Doherty Hotel ======+====== Welcome ======
  
-Built in 1924 by State Senator and Clare Mayor Alfred J. (A.J.) Doherty, the Doherty Hotel stands as landmark at the crossroads of US-10 and US-127. It replaced the burned Hotel Calkins, opening with modern amenities like an Otis elevator and running water. It remains family-operated today. +This is wiki for Clare County history.
-[[USA:MI:ClareCounty:Clare:DohertyHotel|USA:MI:ClareCounty:Clare:Doherty-Hotel]] +
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-===== Early Years and Prohibition (1920s–1930s) ===== +
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-1924: The four-story brick hotel officially opens with 60 rooms, built for over $60,000 to boost local tourism. +
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-1930: Ten one-story tourist cabins are added next to the hotel.1930s: A traveling artist paints a whimsical, wall-wrapping leprechaun mural in exchange for room and board, creating the famous Leprechaun Lounge. +
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-1938: Infamous Detroit Purple Gang associate Isaiah Leebove is shot and killed by his business partner in the hotel taproom.+
  
 +[[people:ajdoherty|people:ajdoherty]]
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