Detroit — Offices, theatres and the railway station

Places documented in Detroit

• Albert Kahn Building — A 1931 modernist office tower in Detroit designed by Albert Kahn and built by the Fisher brothers, connected to the nearby Fisher Building…
• Alger Theater (1935), Detroit, Michigan — Opened on August 22, 1935, in the Morningside neighborhood on Detroit’s east side, the Alger Theater is one of only two surviving intact and
• Ambassador Bridge (1929), Detroit, Michigan — When it opened in November 1929, the Ambassador Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world — a privately built crossing linking D
• Book Tower — Detroit — The Book Tower spent nearly four decades as one of the most photographed abandoned buildings in America — a 38-storey limestone and terra-co
• David Stott Building (1929), Detroit — At 38 stories and 476 feet, the David Stott Building is one of the most elegantly proportioned Art Deco skyscrapers of Detroit's late-1920s
• Detroit Free Press Building (1925), Detroit, Michigan — Albert Kahn's 1925 limestone tower on Lafayette Boulevard served the Detroit Free Press for over seventy years before Bedrock Detroit transf
• Detroit Masonic Temple — The Detroit Masonic Temple is the largest Masonic temple in the world, a vast Gothic Revival structure completed in 1926 in Detroit Cass Cor
• Detroit Naval Armory — A Michigan State Historic Site on Detroit's waterfront, this naval armory represents the city's military heritage and strategic importance t
• Detroit Savings Bank Southwest Branch — A modernist banking hall by Wirt C. Rowland at Albert Kahn's firm, this Detroit landmark was added to the National Register of Historic Plac
• Fisher Building — Rising thirty stories above Detroit’s New Center district, the Fisher Building is one of the most extravagant skyscrapers of the American Ar
• Fisher Building — Detroit — When the seven Fisher brothers received $200 million for their body-panel company from General Motors in 1926, they commissioned Albert Kahn
• Fisher Building (1928), 3011 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan — Known as "Detroit's Most Beautiful Building," a 28-story Art Deco tower on West Grand Boulevard whose interior arcade of mosaic, marble, and
• Fisher Building (1928), Detroit, Michigan — Albert Kahn’s supreme gesture in gold and polished stone — a 30-storey Art Deco tower whose barrel-vaulted lobby arcade has no equal in the
• Fox Theatre (1928), Detroit, Michigan — A six-story auditorium of carved plaster, gilded domes and painted silk ceilings — the Fox Theatre opened in 1928 as one of the largest movi
• Fox Theatre Detroit — The Fox Theatre at 2211 Woodward Avenue is the largest surviving movie palace of the 1920s and a National Historic Landmark in downtown Detr
• Gem Theatre (1927), Madison Avenue, Detroit, Michigan — In 1997, the Gem Theatre was moved 300 feet through downtown Detroit—one of the largest building relocations in U.S. history—to make way for
• Guardian Building
• Guardian Building — Detroit — When Union Trust Company opened its new headquarters on Griswold Street in 1929, Detroit had its cathedral: forty storeys of copper-brick an
• Guardian Building (1929), Detroit, Michigan — Detroit’s “Cathedral of Finance” — a 43-story Art Deco skyscraper at 500 Griswold Street completed in 1929 by architect Wirt C. Rowland, cla
• Maccabees Building — A historic Midtown Detroit building, also known as Wayne Tower, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and now owned by
• Michigan Central Station — Michigan Central Station is a monumental Beaux-Arts railway terminus in the Corktown district of Detroit, Michigan, built for the Michigan C
• Penobscot Building — The Penobscot Building is a soaring 45-story Art Deco skyscraper completed in 1928 in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Designed by architect Wirt
• Penobscot Building — Detroit — For most of the mid-twentieth century, if you looked up from the Detroit River at night, the highest light in the city skyline was a red sph
• Water Board Building (Detroit, Michigan) — A 23-story Art Deco office tower completed in 1928 and designed by Louis Kamper, the Water Board Building showcases Detroit's prosperity…