The four-story, 80-unit residential hotel caught fire on St. Patrick’s Day 2000, ousting all 100 residents and leaving them homeless. Two years after the terrible blaze claimed one life, evidence of former residents remains. Handwritten “No Loitering” signs, burned couches, a Christmas stocking and air mattresses spill out of the windows and doors. Perhaps the most disturbing relic is a rubber baby-doll lying on the ground beneath rampant weeds, empty Wild Irish Rose bottles scattered nearby.
The Granwood Hotel’s advertisement for “air-conditioning” is painted on a wall that bears the unmistakable scorch marks of a devastatingly hot fire.
Text and photo by editorial intern Domenique Osborne.
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