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- Telegram from John Wriston to A. J. Lepine (for Edsel Ford) Arranging Meeting to Discuss Dearborn Inn Colonial Village, April 5, 1937 - By the mid-1930s, the Dearborn Inn, a popular luxury hotel, required additional accommodations to service travelers and visitors to the Edison Institute (later renamed The Henry Ford). The L.G. Treadway Service Corporation consulted with Edsel Ford about proposed upgrades that included a swimming pool, pool house, landscaping, and a "Colonial Village" of guest houses (replicas of homes famous in American history).
- April 05, 1937
- Collections - Artifact
Telegram from John Wriston to A. J. Lepine (for Edsel Ford) Arranging Meeting to Discuss Dearborn Inn Colonial Village, April 5, 1937
By the mid-1930s, the Dearborn Inn, a popular luxury hotel, required additional accommodations to service travelers and visitors to the Edison Institute (later renamed The Henry Ford). The L.G. Treadway Service Corporation consulted with Edsel Ford about proposed upgrades that included a swimming pool, pool house, landscaping, and a "Colonial Village" of guest houses (replicas of homes famous in American history).