Toledo's last great downtown hotel, now apartments — phantom piano music on the second floor and a child's apparition on upper levels.
27 N Huron St, Toledo, OH 43604
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Exterior viewable from public sidewalk at no cost
Access
Wheelchair OK
Flat downtown sidewalk; building interior is private residential
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1927 · Built in 1927 as Toledo's last grand downtown hotel · Once considered the most luxurious hotel in Ohio · Converted to residential apartments
The Commodore Perry Hotel opened in 1927 at 27 N. Huron Street in downtown Toledo, a 17-story structure conceived as the city's finest hospitality offering. Local accounts describe it as once considered the most luxurious hotel in Ohio, drawing prominent guests and hosting civic events through the mid-20th century.
As downtown Toledo's commercial core shifted and hotel competition intensified in the latter half of the 20th century, the Commodore Perry declined from its former prominence. The building was eventually converted to residential apartments, ending its use as a hotel. The conversion left the grand public spaces of the original hotel inaccessible — the lobby, the second and third floor event rooms, and the upper-floor corridor spaces that figure most prominently in paranormal accounts.
The building's architectural presence on N. Huron Street remains striking — a pre-Depression-era tower in the classical style typical of 1920s American hotel construction. Haunted Toledo, a local paranormal research site, documented the building's history and reported phenomena in a 2024 feature.
Sources
Haunted Toledo's 2024 investigation of the Commodore Perry Building documented two distinct categories of phenomena reported by residents and ghost tour participants. The first is phantom piano music — a clear, melodic sound heard on the second and third floors in spaces where no piano exists. Former hotel accounts suggest these floors once contained ballroom and banquet facilities, though this has not been verified in primary historical records reviewed here.
The second, more unusual report is of a child's apparition: a little girl described as wearing a white dress, seen on the upper floors. Witnesses describe the figure as solid-seeming before vanishing. The ghost tour company Haunted Toledo includes this building as a regular stop, citing these accounts from multiple independent visitors over time.
Both categories of phenomena are sourced primarily to ghost tour literature and a paranormal-oriented local site. No primary historical event has been identified that anchors these reports. This record is flagged accordingly.
Notable Entities
The 17-story Commodore Perry Building is visible from the public sidewalk on N Huron St. The building is now converted to private apartments; interior access is not available to the public. Ghost tour operators in Toledo include it as a walking tour stop.
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