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Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder oversee an eight-seat dining room on the second floor. Eight more photos and a short video are below. (Photos: Motown BnB)
This seven-bedroom New Center house is more like an overnight theme park than a typical inn. That's just what owners David and Angela King want.
"Come stay and play the Motown way," the couple says at their Motown BnB site.
A first-floor bedroom
Tributes to Motown Records legends are splashed throughout three floors and the finished basement, as shown here. Oversize photo murals, lyric quotes on walls, star-named bedrooms, music memorabilia and three working Wurlitzer jukboxes from 1963 are designed to make guests stop in the name of Motown love.
The location, 2702 West Grand Blvd. at Poe Street, is 11 houses east of the Motown Museum -- less than a block.
The imaginative lodging, which can sleep 16, is aimed at families, friends visiting Detroit, baby showers, weddings, company retreats, conference groups or other business outings. It has four bathrooms, two dining rooms and a cost of $800 per night through Airbnb (two-day minumum).
This 1963 Wurlitzer and two others play Motown classics from the '60s and '70s.
Amenities include a pool table, 1965 restored pinball machine, dance floor, wifi, second-floor balcony with seating, fenced back yard and off-street parking for three or four vehicles.
David King, born and raised in Detroit, bought the property in 2015 for $48,000, radio station WKFR of Kalamazoo says in a feature.
The home was originally built in 1911, and King has kept much of its original woodwork and resurfaced wood floors. King estimated that property had been abandoned for about 15 years and was in rough shape.
The entrepreneur saw potential for "not just a place to stay, but also an experience of the things that made Detroit and Motown famous," he tells the station.
The Kings have earned 31 guest reviews that are all positive. Below a sampling of their photos is a half-minute WXYZ look at the distinctive accommodations.
Shellac-covered vintage vinyl records provide a basement dance floor.
The second floor's living room sofa can convert into a pullout queen bed.
A Rick James-style bedroom.
The first-level dining room, also with room for eight, has a Supremes mural.
Speaking of the Supremes . . .
Smokey Robinson fans can pick this first-floor room.
WXYZ segment:
