address: 1150 Griswold St. data: Year Built: 1929 Architect: Donaldson and Meier Style: Art Deco history: Located at the corner of Griswold and State Street, this building incorporates brick, marble (on the first three floors from the street), and limestone as its surface materials. As with many of the other Detroit buildings of the era [...]
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data: Year Built: 1930 – present Architect: Various history: 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 [...]
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