address: 2305 Park Avenue data: Year Built: 1924 Architect: Louis Kamper Style: Italian Renaissance history: 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. [...]
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address: 1249 Washington Blvd data: Year Built: 1916 -1926 Architect: Louis Kamper Style: Italian Renaissance history: The 38-story Book Tower was part of the Washington Boulevard redevelopment, a project by J. Burgess Book, Jr. and his brothers which transformed a run-down area of Detroit into one of the world’s most fashionable streets. Planned in 1915 [...]
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