Tudor Arms Hotel
Tudor Arms Hotel is a historic hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. It was designed by Coeveland architect Frank B. Meade in 1929. It opened in 1933 as the Cleveland Club. A 12-story Gothic revival architecture building it is at Carnegie Avenue and Stokes Boulevard where it looms over University Circle. [1]
It had a swimming pool, bowling alley, library, and two ballrooms. Mobster Al Capone was a regular. The club closed in 1939 during the Great Depression and the building reopened as the Tudor Arms Hotel. One of the ballrooms became the Empress Room supper club where performers including Patrice Wymore, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong showed up.[1]