Detroit Free Press Building

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The Detroit Free Press Building is a building designed by architect Albert Kahn and constructed in downtown Detroit, Michigan in 1924 and completed a year later. The high-rise building has two basement floors, and 14 floors above the ground, for a total of 16 floors. The building features Art Deco architecture style, and incorporates a great deal of limestone into its materials. The building is adorned with bas-reliefs sculpted by Ulysses A. Ricci.

The building is currently abandoned. It was formerly the home of the Detroit Free Press, and still displays a large neon sign of the newspaper on its roof.

In Spring 2003, the Detroit Free Press Building was added to a short list of possible sites to replace the Detroit Police Headquarters. Another candidate is the Michigan Central Station.

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  • Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C.P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A. (1980). Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1651-4. 
  • Sharoff, Robert (2005). American City: Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3270-6. 

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