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Louis Kamper

David Broderick Building

April 14, 2009 Downtown
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address:
10 Witherell
data:
Year built: 1928
Architect: Louis & Paul Kamper
Style:  Classical with Beaux-Arts details
history:
When originally built, it was referred to as the Eaton Tower and was the 2nd tallest building in Michigan at the time.  The classical style tower was once topped with Beaux-Arts details, most of which have now disappeared.  The building features relative small floor [...]

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Park Avenue House

April 14, 2009 Downtown
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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.  The Park Avenue House [...]

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Book Tower

July 18, 2008 Downtown
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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 by Edward H. Bennett of Chicago according [...]

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Westin Book Cadillac

July 16, 2008 Downtown
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address:
1114 Washington Boulevard

data:
Year Built: 1923 – 1924
Renovated: 2006 – 2008
Architect: Louis Kamper
Style: Italian Rennaisance

history:
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 [...]

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