04138cam a2200325 4500 553286867 TxAuBib 20220407120000.0 050621s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780814332702 0814332706 TxAuBib Sharoff, Robert. American city : Detroit architecture, 1845-2005 / text by Robert Sharoff ; photographs by William Zbaren. Detroit architecture, 1845-2005. Detroit, Mich : Wayne State University Press, 2005. xxi, 121 p. : col. ill. Painted turtle Includes bibliographical references (p. 121) and indexes. American City : Fort Wayne -- Lighthouse Supply Depot -- R.H. Traver Building -- Wright-Kay Building -- R. Hirt Jr. Co. Building -- Chauncey Hurlbut Memorial Gate -- Detroit Cornice and Slate Company-- Wayne County Building -- Savoyard Centre -- Belle Isle Conservatory -- Harmonie Centre -- Dime Building -- L.B. King and Company Building -- Michigan Central Railroad Station -- R.H. Fyfe's Shoe Store Building -- Orchestra Hall -- Detroit Public Library, Main Branch -- Cadillac Place -- Women's City Club -- Bankers Trust Company Building -- James Scott Fountain -- Buhl Building -- Detroit Institute of Arts -- Fox Theatre -- Penobscot Building -- Park Place Apartments -- Guardian Building -- David Stott Building -- Fisher Building -- Horace H. Rackham Building -- Coleman A. Young Municipal Center -- Turkel House -- McGregor Memorial Conference Center -- Lafayette Park -- One Woodward -- First Federal Bank Building -- Frank Murphy Hall of Justice -- Smith, Hinchman, and Grylls Building -- Kresge-Ford Building -- SBC Building -- Renaissance Center -- Horace E. Dodge and Son Memorial Fountain -- Detroit Receiving Hospital -- Coleman A. Young Community Center -- Cobo Hall and Convention Center -- One Detroit Center -- John D. Dingell VA Hospital and Medical Center -- Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History -- Compuware Building -- Cass Technical High School. In the 1910s and 1920s there was more steel going up in Detroit than anywhere outside of New York and Chicago. The result was the country's first high-tech metropolis, a city of lavish monuments and glittering skyscrapers. The list of major architects who designed buildings for Detroit includes Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Stanford White, Daniel Burnham, Cass Gilbert, Albert Kahn, Minoru Yamasaki, Philip Johnson, and numerous others. Detroit's public buildings - its museums, libraries, schools, and monuments - are second to none in terms of their overall scale, materials, and detailing. Hotels, stores, theaters, and other commercial venues display a breezy cosmopolitanism consistent with the city's position as both a technology hub and a crossroads of immigration. Overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of the buildings they encountered on a 2003 visit to downtown Detroit, writer Robert Sharoff and photographer William Zbaren were inspired to create American City: Detroit Architecture, 1845-2005, the first new large-format book on the city's architecture in more than thirty years. The fact that many structures are either endangered or marginally in use makes the book all the more compelling. In 2005, the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed "the historic buildings of downtown Detroit" on the list of the country's most endangered landmarks. The book also includes examples of interesting new architecture as well as numerous historic buildings from the 1920s and earlier that have been maintained or in some cases painstakingly restored. 20220407. Architecture Michigan Detroit History 19th century. Architecture Michigan Detroit History 20th century. Architecture, American. Michigan Architecture. Detroit (Mich) Buildings, structures, etc. Zbaren, William. Painted turtle.