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Metropolitan Building, 25-107 John R Street, Detroit, Wayne County, MI
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Summary
Significance: This is a significant example of the kind of speculative commercial construction commonplace in Detroit during the city's period of rapid growth brought about by the success of the automobile industry in the late 1910s and early 1920s. It was built to provide office space in the rapidly-expanding Grand Circus Park area at the northern edge of Detroit's Central Business District. It is also a good example of late Gothic Revival design, applied to a modest skyscraper, with appropriate elaborate ornamentation.
Survey number: HABS MI-261
Building/structure dates: 1925 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1927 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1930 Subsequent Work
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Tags
commercial facilities
metropolitan
john r street
detroit
wayne county
michigan
historic american buildings survey
waldbridge aldinger company
weston and ellington
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
ornament
architecture
commercial buildings architeture
interior
detroit publishing company photograph collection
library of congress
Date
1925 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Weston & Ellington
Waldbridge-Aldinger Company
Location
Detroit (Mich.)
,
42.33532, -83.04860
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html