Landmark Inn

Building plans and concept work on the hotel started in June 1916 and were overseen by Samuel Shackford Otis.{{cite web |title = Learn About Our Historic Michigan Hotel |url = https://www.thelandmarkinn.com/history |publisher = Landmark Inn |access-date = April 26, 2022 }} Construction on Hotel Northland began with foundation pouring in 1920 but was quickly halted due to lack of funding. After George Shiras III and the stockholders of the Kambawgam Hotel Co.{{Cite news |url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7380761/the-escanada-daily-press-mar-231949/ |title = Don Hutson Sues Hotel in Marquette fort $100,000|newspaper = The Escanaba Daily Press |agency =Associated Press |date = March 23, 1949 |page = 14 }} had raised the $35,000 (equivalent to ${{formatprice|{{inflation|US-GDP|35000|1929|r=-3}}}} in {{inflation-year|US-GDP}}{{inflation-fn|US-GDP}}) necessary to build the hotel, construction resumed 12 years later on April 1, 1929. Hotel Northland officially opened to guests on January 2, 1930.

It operated as a full-service hotel with 100 rooms until the 1970s, when it started falling apart. The hotel finally closed in 1982. {{cite web|url=https://www.hauntedrooms.com/michigan/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/the-landmark-inn-marquette |title=Haunted Landmark Inn, Marquette, MI |publisher=Haunted Rooms America |accessdate=April 5, 2025}} Through the 1970s, the hotel fell into a severe state of disrepair. The deterioration of the building and a series of rapid name changes (including "Heritage House" in the mid-1970s and "Old Marquette Inn" in 1978) ultimately lead to its closure in 1982, after which it was considered abandoned.{{cite news |url = https://marquettemonthly.org/landmark-celebrates-10th-anniversary-by-darcia-mattson/ |title = Landmark celebrates 10th anniversary |first = Darcia |last = Mattson |date = May 22, 2007 |website = Marquette Monthly |access-date = January 15, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191218185309/https://marquettemonthly.org/landmark-celebrates-10th-anniversary-by-darcia-mattson/ |archive-date = December 18, 2019 |url-status = dead }}

In 1995, the hotel property was purchased by Christine and Bruce Pesola{{cite web |url=https://www.secondwavemedia.com/upword/features/landmarkinn121014.aspx

|work=UPWord |publisher=secondwavemedia.com|title=What the future for the Landmark Inn looks like |first1=Brian |last1=Martucci |date=December 10, 2014 |accessdate=April 8, 2025}} for $103,000 (equivalent to ${{formatprice|{{inflation|US-GDP|103000|1995|r=-3}}}} in {{inflation-year|US-GDP}}{{inflation-fn|US-GDP}}) and in that same year, a complete renovation of the building began. After renovation efforts were finished in 1997, the newly restored hotel was reopened as the Landmark Inn.{{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=s2sGK5L38dIC&pg=PA338 |title = An Explorer's Guide: Michigan |edition = 2nd |location = Woodstock, Vermont |publisher = Countryman Press |first1 = Jeff |last1 = Counts |year = 2011 |series=Explorer’s Great Destinations|type=Paperback |page = 338 |isbn = 978-0-88150-949-6 }}

In 1997 it was the first Michigan Hotel to be awarded membership in the Historic Hotels of America.{{cite web |title = Landmark Inn, a Historic Hotels of America member |url = http://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/landmark-inn/ |publisher = Historic Hotels of America |access-date = January 28, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140202205629/http://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/landmark-inn/ |archive-date = February 2, 2014 }}{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=V6LmBWyky2MC&pg=PA136 |page=136 |title=Explorer's Guide Michigan's Upper Peninsula: A Great Destination |series=Explorer’s Great Destinations|date=March 5, 2012 |location = Woodstock, Vermont |publisher = Countryman Press|edition=2nd |first1=Amy |last1=Westervelt |isbn=9781581571387}}

This boutique hotel amalgamates modern comfort with "old-world elegance" in downtown Marquette.{{cite web |url=https://lifeinmichigan.com/landmark-inn-marquette/ |title=Landmark Inn – A grand hotel in Marquette |work=Life in Michigan |first1=Chuck |last1=Marshall |date=January 31, 2015 |accessdate=April 5, 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://chrisplusmelissa.com/checking-into-history-landmark-inn-marquette-michigan/ |title=Checking into History: Landmark Inn, Marquette, Michigan Melissa |publisher=Chrisplusmelissa.com |date=February 14, 2025 |accessdate=April 5, 2025}} It offers Lake Superior views within a short walk to bars, restaurants. entertainment and museums. There are rooms named after the celebrities and historical figures who were guests. In 2002, The Rolling Stones gathered there before the funeral of their road manager.{{cite news |url=https://www.miningjournal.net/news/2023/08/then-and-now-|last1=Muehlen |first1=Gabby |title=Then and now: Hotel Northland becomes true Landmark News |date=August 9, 2023 |newspaper=The Mining Journal|quote=Dr. Jerry Linenger stayed in the summer of 1997 after returning from his near-fatal mission to the Russian Mir Station; Jim Harrison, the novelist who wrote "The Legends of the Fall", stayed often; President Guntis Ulmanis of Latvia resided there in the fall of 1998; and then there was Gloria Steinem in May of 1999 along with poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou who stayed there in the summer of that same year. |accessdate=April 4, 2025}}

Throughout its history, the hotel has hosted many celebrities and historical figures:{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_u5_Oi2Rw7kC&pg=PA170 |pages=170-176 |chapter=24 Landmark Inn, Marquette |isbn=9781578605149 |title=Ghosthunting Michigan (America's Haunted Road Trip) |series=America's Haunted Road Trip (24 books) |first1=Helen |last1=Pattskyn |date=September 11, 2012}} Amelia Earhart in 1932, Abbott & Costello in 1942, comedian Bill Cosby, band leader Duke Ellington (see Mather Inn), Governor John Engler, astronaut Jerry M. Linenger, Amelia Earhardt and Maya Angelou. The hotel also hosted the cast and crew of the film Anatomy of a Murder during filming in 1959.

The hotel is reported to be haunted.

The hotel has been owned by Graves Hospitality Management since 2015.{{cite news |date = March 9, 2015 |url = http://www.miningjournal.net/opinion/editorial/2015/03/new-ownership-at-the-landmark-inn-in-marquette/ |title = New Ownership at the Landmark Inn in Marquette |department = Editorial |work = The Mining Journal |location = Marquette, Michigan |access-date = September 20, 2017 }} The Landmark Inn operates 66 rooms, many of which are now named in coordination to the celebrities and historical figures that have stayed in each respective room. For a number of years, the Landmark Inn was a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; the hotel left the program in 2016.{{cite web |url=https://www.michigan.org/article/trip-idea/spend-night-historic-hotels-michigan |title=Spend a Night at These Historic Hotels in Michigan |publisher=Pure Michigan |accessdate=April 2, 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.michigan.org/article/trip-idea/spend-night-historic-hotels-michigan |title=Cozy Up in These Historic Inns and Lodges |quote=Michigan’s legacies are well-preserved within the walls of these hotels. |publisher=Pure Michigan |accessdate=April 2, 2023}} Winter evenings are described as "cozy" by the fireplace " with a "an oversized live fir tree in its Grand Lobby and candlelit New Year’s Eve dinners."

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