Detroit News Building, Detroit, MI
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N 42° 19.734 W 083° 03.240
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The Detroit News Building is located on West Lafayette Blvd. in Detroit, MI.
Waymark Code: WM1Z02
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 08/06/2007
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The Detroit News Building, 615 Lafayette Blvd., a four-story structure of modern design, houses the Detroit News, founded in 1873 by James E. Scripps. Windows framed by massive arches, in a long row, reveal the presses, the most characteristic mechanical element of the plant. The reinforced construction is clothed in vigorous masonry forms enhanced by significant sculpture, uncommon in newspaper buildings. Designed by Albert Kahn and Ernest Wilby, some of the exterior details and the spirit of much of the interior show sustained influence of the Renaissance style. Ornamental detail in the exterior treatment reflects the printing world. On the spandrels between the second and third floor windows are carved the colophons, or printers' marks, which identified such early craftsman as Albrecht Durer, Richard Grafton, Hugh Singleton, and a member of the Aldus family. Carved statutes representing four pioneers in printing, Johannes Guttenburg, Christophe Plantin, William Claxton, and Benjamin Franklin, adorn the heads of four piers in the Lafayette Boulevard facade.
--excerpt from Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State, 1941
In 1989, The Detroit News entered into a joint operating agreement with it's rival the Detroit Free Press and in 1998 the Free Press moved into the News Building. Today, the Detroit News Building, built in 1917, houses daily operations for both papers with daily circulation reaching nearly 500,000.
Book: Michigan
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 270
Year Originally Published: 1941
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