Divine Lorraine Hotel

Lorraine Apartments
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Divine Lorraine from Broad Street, prior to its 2008 renovations
Location	699 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
Coordinates	39°58′0″N 75°9′36″W / 39.96667°N 75.16000°W / 39.96667; -75.16000
Built	1892
Architect	Willis G. Hale George F. Payne and Company
Architectural style	Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	02001427 [1]
Added to NRHP	November 27, 2002

The Divine Lorraine Hotel, also known as the Lorraine Apartments, stands at the corner of Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed by architect Willis G. Hale and built between 1892 and 1894, the building originally functioned as apartments, housing some of Philadelphia's wealthy residents. Lorraine Apartments was one of the most luxurious and best preserved late 19th-century apartment houses in Philadelphia. In 1900 the building became the Lorraine Hotel when the Italian-owned Metropolitan Hotel Company purchased the apartments. Later it would become the first hotel in Philadelphia to be racially integrated under Father Divine.

The hotel was abandoned and deteriorated, with graffiti all over the walls, broken windows, and crumbling stone. On September 16, 2015, a massive renovation project began.