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Industrial Building (Detroit)

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Industrial Building
General information
Type	residential
Location	1410 Washington Boulevard Detroit, Michigan
Coordinates	42°20′02″N 83°03′02″W / 42.3338°N 83.0505°W / 42.3338; -83.0505
Completed	1928
Height
Roof	73 m (240 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	22
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Louis Kamper
Industrial Building
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Part of	Washington Boulevard Historic District (ID99000338)
Designated CP	March 18, 1999

The Industrial Building is a high-rise building located at 1410 Washington Boulevard in downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Washington Boulevard Historic District. It occupies the northeast corner on Grand River Avenue and Washington Boulevard.

The building stands 22 storeys tall, with 21 above-ground floors, and one basement level. It was completed in 1928,^[1] and is one of the many structures built by architect Louis Kamper on Washington Boulevard in the 1910s and 1920s. Kamper designed the Industrial Building with a mixture of Art Deco, Gothic Revival and Beaux-Arts architectural designs.^[1] The upper stories feature several setbacks and piers, and the roof has an intricate design of limestone cornices.

Built as an office building, the tower was later converted to residential use and renamed the Park Place Apartments.^[1] A fire struck the building in February 2003, temporarily displacing over 100 residents.

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Further reading[edit]

• 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Sharoff, Robert (2005). American City: Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3270-6.

External links[edit]

• Google Maps location of the Industrial-Stevens Apartments
• "Louis Kamper Building". Emporis. Archived from the original on July 25, 2020.
• "Industrial Building Apartments". SkyscraperPage.