DETROIT, MICHIGAN | Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 | 9:28 PM | 38 buildings and counting...

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Park Avenue House

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The Park Avenue House (formerly called the Royal Palms Hotel) is one of three hotels that Louis Kamper designed for what was once the heart of Detroit’s hotel district.  Kamper also designed the Eddystone Hotel and the Park Avenue Hotel.  The Park Avenue House is 13 stories of masonry with Italian Rennaisance detailing and ornamentation.  [...]

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Westin Book Cadillac

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At one time, this Louis Kamper masterpiece was the tallest building in Detroit and the tallest hotel in the world.  The hotel changed hands many times since the Great Depression and finally ended up closed and abandoned.   Local developers stepped up in 2005 to restore this once great Detroit symbol.  The completed project will feature [...]

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Cranbrook

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The Cranbrook Educational Community, a unique 300 acre campus begun in the 1930s, was envisioned as an artistic community that would help students insert the fundamentals of good design back into everyday life. Cranbrook developed out of a collaboration between Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and Detroit News owners George and Helen Booth. All three disliked [...]

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