Hillcrest Hotel, also known as the Hillcrest Arms Apartment Hotel, is a historic building in

Toledo, Ohio Toledo ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States. A major Midwestern United States port city, Toledo is the fourth-most populous city in the state of Ohio, after Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, and according ...

, United States. It has nine floors and was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1998. It is located at 1601-1621 Madison Avenue.Hillcrest Hotel
Emporis The Hillcrest was built in 1929. Authors, artists, and business people stayed in the hotel, including

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in 1933. She had an arrow painted on the roof to assist pilots in locating the local airfield. The hotel closed in 1990. The building was used as an interdenominational Christian center to help homeless people and substance abusers before a 1994 fire closed it. A $12 million remodel in 1999 converted the building to use as a residential apartment building with 106 apartments. Bonds were issued for the building's renovation. The City of Toledo has made up the difference in loan underpayments JC Reind
Historic Hillcrest faces foreclosure
City potentially on hook for $6.7M, The 106-unit Hillcrest has been behind on payments since 2001. April 04, 2008 Toledo Blade and is expected to be "on the hook" for $6.7 million as the building was to be sold in foreclosure in 2009.Gary T. Pakulsk
Court names receiver for apartments; former Toledo hotel nears foreclosure sale
February 18, 2009 Toledo Blade

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Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio Hotel buildings completed in 1929 Buildings and structures in Toledo, Ohio National Register of Historic Places in Lucas County, Ohio 1929 establishments in Ohio {{LucasCountyOH-NRHP-stub