  Carptrash Member Username: Carptrash Post Number: 1461 Registered: 10-2003 |
I looked for info elsewhere here, but found nothing so, I'm asking. Begging really. Who was the architect of this fine building? And/or feel free to toss in anything else about it that you might know about it. eeeeeeeeeeeek | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 1348 Registered: 01-2004 |
I always though this would be a coolest loft building. | ||
Detroitsky Member Username: Detroitsky Post Number: 3 Registered: 06-2007 |
It was built in 1925 and it's 135 feet tall. | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 236 Registered: 08-2006 |
Wasn't able to find architect info, however, for those unfamiliar with this structure.... pic by Detroitblog flickr pic by One Foot Over The Moon emporis.com photos | ||
Carptrash Member Username: Carptrash Post Number: 1463 Registered: 10-2003 |
It is interesting that no architect has shown up yet. Hinting to me that perhaps it's by Geo M Mason, one of the more under understood and appreciated of Detroit's major architects. eeeeeek | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 5051 Registered: 10-2003 |
I have the complete list of George Mason's work...I will have to look through it... | ||
Mccarch Member Username: Mccarch Post Number: 140 Registered: 12-2003 |
Carpster - good to see you round the neighborhood. Here's an informative site: http://www.detroitblog.org/?p= 477 I concur that this is an exquisite building. It does not look like a George Mason. My guess-architect is Gustave Muhler, who had an office on the building's top floor. He also designed the Hurlburt Gate and the much lamented Immaculate Conception Church in Poletown. | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 2901 Registered: 02-2007 |
i want to live in that top floor with those windows | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 2902 Registered: 02-2007 |
it was supposedly being renovated by Heritage National Investment, but their phone lines are now a wholesale oil company | ||
Carptrash Member Username: Carptrash Post Number: 1465 Registered: 10-2003 |
So here is another clue, possible red herring, as to who the architect might be. if you look closely at the round bas- reliefs you'll see a figure of a guy with a pointy beard. I call him Pointy Beard have found him on two Crane designed buildings - the Film Board Building (or something like that ) and the - what is or was the Daimler-Chrysler building on Plymouth Rd. Pointy Beard both places. What what do you folks think of this as being a Crane opus? Of course it could just be the same sculptor? | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6406 Registered: 10-2003 |
Carpy, I'm not sure if it was you planting a seed a long time ago or not, but I have always thought it looked like a Crane to me... | ||
Carptrash Member Username: Carptrash Post Number: 1466 Registered: 10-2003 |
Yes, nice to stop by. In regards to Mueller doing it, well this is 30 years after Hurlbut Gate - a long time. Mason, on the other hand designs (or his firm does) the very Deco Detroit College of Law building (knocked down for Commerica Park), after the Harvard, so to me he is still in the running. But where's Patrick and his list? eeeeeek |
