William B. and Mary Shuford House
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Date Built: 1950
Address: 227 Orchard Hills Dr.

University of Michigan Law School Library
Architect: Gunnar Birkerts and Associates
Date Built: 1977-81
Address: Corner of Monroe and Tappan Streets

Domino's Farms
Domino's Pizza World Headquarters
Architect: Gunnar Birkerts
Date Built: 1985-89
Address: Plymouth Rd.
1.2 million square feet, the headquarters is on a 300-acre pastoral farmland. Features sweeping horizontal lines, long low-pitched copper clad roofs, natural materials, ribbon windows and berming. Contains physical fitness activity centers, a conference center, cafeterias, executive offices and a 250,000 square foot warehouse and operations plant.

Bloomfield Hills

Gregor S. and Elizabeth P. Affleck House
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Date Built: 1942
Address: 1925 North Woodward Ave.
Built of pinkish brick masonry and chamfered, lapped horizontal cypress boards over inclined plywood cores. Usonian Mode.

Cranbrook Educational Community
Architect: George Booth, Albert Kahn, Eliel Saarinen, Bertram G. Goodhue Associates, George G. Booth, Henry S. Booth, Oscar H. Murray of Bertram G. Goodhue Associates.
Date Built: 1907-present
Address: 1221 N. Woodward Ave.
Includes the Cranbrook House, Brookside School, Christ Church Cranbrook, Cranbrook School for Boys, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Kingswood School for Girls, Cranbrook Institute of Science and the Cranbrook Museum and Library. Transformed from a farm estate into a cultural and educational complex, consists of many beautiful gardens, an open-air Greek Theater, a number of lakes and with designs done by well know architects.

Dearborn

Ford Motor Company
River Rouge Plant
Architect: Albert Kahn
Date Built: 1917-1938
Address: 3001 Miller Rd.
Extremely large complex that included; dock facilities, blast furnaces, open-hearth steel mills, foundries, a rolling mill, metal stamping facilities, and engine plant and its own power house supplying steam and electricity.

Detroit

Renaissance Center
Architect: John C. Portman and Associates
Date Built: 1977
Modifications: 1986-87 by James P. Ryan
Address: Bordered by East Jefferson Ave.,
Saint Antoine St., the Detroit River and Randolf St.
Contains offices, shops, theaters, and restaurants in four thirty-nine story octagonal towers that rise from a concrete podium alongside with a seventy-three story cylindrical hotel that was planned by Henry Ford II. Contains sky bridges that connect the major office buildings.

Detroit-Windsor Tunnel
Architect: Parsons, Klapp, Brinkerhoff
and Douglass, supervising engineers.
Date Built: 1930
Address: Between Detroit and Windsor at Randolph St., under the Detroit River Third major subaqueous vehicular tunnel built in the United States.

Peoples State Bank
Architect: McKim, Mead and White
Date Built: 1900
Addition: 1915 by John M. Donaldson and Meier
Address: 151 West Fort St.
Southeast corner of Fort and Shelby,
in downtown Detroit Designed by architect Stanford White. A classical structure, the bank later became Manufacturers National Bank and in 1994 the downtown headquarters of Silvers Office Supply Company.

Guardian Building
Architect: Wirt C. Rowland of Smith, Hinchman and Grylls
Date Built: 1927-29
Address: 500 Griswold St.
Thirty-six story Art Deco skyscraper covered in orange "Guardian" brick. Highly decorated. Also contains murals, Pewabic tiles and carved stone figures. Aztec, Mayan decorating theme.

John J. Bagley Memorial Fountain
Architect: Henry Hobson Richardson
Date Built: 1887
Address: Moved in 1925 to present site
at Northeast corner
of Woodward and Monroe Avenues. The drinking fountain is over eighteen feet which rises over a base of four steps. The fountain was donated to the people of Detroit by former governor John J. Bagley to provide a constant flow of ice water that comes out of four lion heads. It is carved of unpolished white Worcester granite.

Fox Theater
Architect: C. Howard Crane
Date Built: 1927-28
Restored: 1987-88 by William Kessler and Associates,
with Ray Shepardon as the restoration consultant. Address: 2111 Woodward Ave.
Designed for William Fox, the Detroit theater is the "largest and most exotic Eclectic Hindu-Siamese-Byzantine theater of the golden age." Seats over five thousand people.

Wayne County Morgue
and Medical Examiners Office
Architect: Aaron H. Gould and Son
Date Built: 1924-25
Address: 400 East Lafayette Ave.
Egyptian Revival style reflects a tomblike structure with a flat roof that cover's two story's. Made of limestone and buff Roman brick.

The Whitney House
Architect: Gordon W. Lloyd
Date Built: 1890-1894
Address: 4421 Woodward Ave.
Consists of 42 rooms, 218 stained-glass windows and 20 fireplaces of various marbles and onyx. The outside of the house is purplish pink Jasper rock. Gabled, turreted and round-arched Richardsonian Romanesque style.

Detroit Public Library
Architect: Cass Gilbert
Date Built: 1915-21
Address: 5201 Woodward Ave.
Classical early twentieth century style building in white Vermont marble and surrounded by terraces on three sides, fluted Ionic pilasters and Doric columns inside. Wall murals and stained-glass windows.

Detroit Institute of Arts
Architect: 1927, Paul Philippe Cret and Zantzinger, Borie and Medary. 1963-66, Eleanor and Edsel Ford (South) Wing. 1970-71, Jerome P. Cavanaugh (North) Wing, Gunner Birkerts and Associates, and Harley, Ellington, Cowin and Stirton. 1981, Main Entrance, Kiley-Walker Designs of Vermont.
Address: 5200 Woodward Ave.
White Vermont marble with a triple-arched entrance. Has connecting bridges through existing windows that connect the original building to the recent additions.

General Motors Building
Architect: Albert Kahn
Date Built: 1919-21
Address: 3044 West Grand Blvd.
1800 offices, auditorium, exposition halls, auto display rooms, gymnasium, shops and more occupy this limestone faced steel-framed structure. Fifteen story building has an elongated central block with four projecting wings on the front and back and a five story extension.

Fisher Building
Architect: Albert Kahn
Date Built: 1927-1929
Address: 3011 West Grand Blvd.
Twenty-eight-story tower with two eleven-story wings that extend to the north and to the west. Minnesota granite and Maryland marble used in the building. Paintings, marble, mosaic and bronze decorates the forty-four-foot-high arcade. A place to do business, shop and be entertained all through-out the structure.

Lighthouse Cathedral
Architect: Albert Kahn
Date Built: 1922
Address: 8801 Woodward Ave.
Octastyle temple, with Ionic columns inside and out of the Cathedral. Classical concept.

Turkel-Benbow House
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Date Built: 1956
Address: 2760 West Seven Mile Rd.
A low, horizontal, L-shaped, Usonian Automatic house built of precast concrete . The house has no large windows, instead, the concrete blocks are pierced, which allow for plenty of light inside.

Conservatory
Architect: Albert Kahn
Date Built: 1900-1904
Address: Belle Isle Park
Central glass dome and symmetrical glazed wings. Replica of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Currently a botanical garden with plants from all over the world.

Pewabic Pottery
Architect: William B. Stratton
Date Built: 1907
Address: 10125 East Jefferson Ave.
Founded by Mary Chase Perry. English half-timber cottage, with a steep medieval roof.

Freer House
Architect: Wilson Eyre, Jr.
Date built: 1890
Address: 71 E. Ferry, adjacent to the Hecker House on the Northeast corner of Woodward Ave. and Ferry, in the Detroit Cultural Center.
Designed by Wilson Eyre, Jr., a master of the shingle style, for Charles L. Freer, a partner with Hecker in the manufacture of railroad cars. Freer was a leading art collector whose collection, once in the house's converted horse stables, is in the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery in Washington D.C. An arts and crafts style mansion, now owned by Wayne State University.

McGregor Memorial Conference Center
Wayne State University
Architect: Minoru Yamasaki and Associates
Date Built: 1958
Address: Wayne State University Mall, northwest section.
Overlooks a sunken garden and reflecting pool, two-story steel-framed and concrete building, covered in travertine marble and aluminum trim.

Hecker House
Architect: Louis Kamper of Stanford White's Firm
Date Built: 1889-92
Address: 5510 Woodward Ave. Northeast corner of Woodward Ave. and Ferry, in the Detroit Cultural Center.
The building was modeled after a French Renaissance Chateau, done in limestone. Was the former headquarters of Smiley Brothers Music Company until 1990, then leased by the Charfoos and Christensen Law Firm.

Chrysler Corporation
Dodge Half-ton Plant
Architect: Albert Kahn
Date Built: 1937
Address: Northeast corner of Eight Mile and Mounds roads.
Most noted work by Albert Kahn, represents a "breakthrough in the design of industrial architecture."

Lafayette Park Towers
Architect: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Date Built: 1963
Considered the nation's finest in-city living environment, the building which has two towers of similar height, a 20-acre central park, recreation area and a swimming pool separate the two towers.

General Motors Technical Center
Architect: Eero Saarinen and Smith, Hinchman & Grylls.
Date Built: 1956
Address: Mound Rd.
Consists of research laboratories and of engineering, environmental, manufacturing and design areas on a campus-like setting.

SS. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church
Architect: Francis Letourneau
Date Built: 1848
Address: 629 East Jefferson Ave.
Detroit's oldest church in operation.

Grosse Pointe Shores

Edsel and Eleanor Ford House
Architect: Albert Kahn
Date Built: 1927-29
Address: 1100 Lake Shore Rd.
Sixty-room mansion made of Briar Hill sandstone with a split-stone roof. Based on the Cotswold architecture of Worcestershire England. Open to the public.

Howell

Livingston County Court House
Architect: Albert E. French
Date Built: 1889-1890
Restored: 1975-1978 by William Kessler and Associates
Address: 200 E. Grand River Ave.
Richardsonian Romanesque red brick.

Lansing

Michigan State Capitol
Architect: Elijah E. Meyers
Restoration: Richard C. Frank, 1989-present.
Date Built: 1872-1878
Address: Bounded by Capital Ave. and West Allegan, Butler, and West Ottawa streets.
Domed Neoclassical structure of light grayish yellowish brown Berea sandstone.

Michigan Library and Historical Center
Architect: William Kessler and Associates, Inc.B
Date Built: 1985-88
Address: Bounded by West Washtenaw, Butler, West Allegan and Sycamore streets.
Five-story, 250,000 square-foot Postmodern structure.

Goestch-Winkler House
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Date Built: 1939
Address: 2410 Hulett Rd.
Usonian. "House rests on a concrete slab that incorporates radiant heating and eliminates the need for a basement". Low horizontal design.

Royal Oak

Shrine of the Little Flower
Architect: Henry J. McGill
Date Built: 1929-1931 tower, 1933-1936 church.
Address: Northeast corner of Woodward Ave. and Twelve Mile Rd.
Art Deco tower and church built with contributions from radio listeners nationally. Exterior walls of the church are from rough-cut granite and trimmed with smooth-cut limestone. The tower is of limestone and covered with carvings and relief sculpture depicting church figures and symbolism. The walls are inlaid with stones carved with flowers of all forty-eight states whose citizens contributed funds. The Charity Crucifixion Tower has an enormous relief of the crucified Christ on the cross, and in the tower is a room that was used as the radio broadcast center. The church seats three thousand. Copper and nickel-steel-clad-dome.

Southfield

Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Architect: Albert Kahn Associates and Percival Goodman
Date Built: 1962
Address: 27237 Bell Rd.
On a 40-acre site, this sharply peaked synagogue is seen by thousands in their daily commute, off the Northwestern Highway.

IBM Office Building
Architect: Gunnar Birkerts and Associates, Inc.
Date Built: 1971
Address: 18000 West 9 Mile Road
Has a unique window design that capitalizes on natural light without the heat of the sun. Also focuses on energy conservation.

Troy

Kresge Foundation Office
and Conference Center
Washington and Catherine Barringer Stanley House,
formerly Brooks Farm
Architect: William Kessler and Associates, rebuilding and restoration.
Date Built: 1852, restored-1982
Address: 3215 West Big Beaver Rd.
Two-story, side gable Greek Revival farmhouse made of roughly coursed, split-faced fieldstone. Two restored windmills, a silo and a fieldstone and wooden shed exist on the

Ann Arbor

Nichols Arboreteum
Landscape Architect: Frederick Law Olmstead
Date Built: Founded in 1907
Address: Gedde's Road & Huron River- Three blocks East of Observatory Street
Gift from Ester and Walter Nichols. 123 acres on University of Michigan campus Educational Research Center. Has labeled trees, flowers and exotic species, trails.

Bloomfield Hills

Cranbrook Educational Community
Architect: George Booth, Albert Kahn, Eliel Saarinen, Bertram G. Goodhue Associates, George G. Booth, Henry S. Booth, Oscar H. Murray of Bertram G. Goodhue Associates.
Landscape Architects: H.J. Corfield and O.C. Simonds
Date Built: 1907-present
Address: 1221 N. Woodward Ave.
Includes the Cranbrook House, Brookside School, Christ Church Cranbrook, Cranbrook School for Boys, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Kingswood School for Girls, Cranbrook Institute of Science and the Cranbrook Museum and Library. Transformed from a farm estate into a cultural and educational complex, consists of many beautiful gardens, an open-air Greek Theater, a number of lakes and with designs done by well-known architects.

Detroit

Phillip A. Hart Plaza
Architect: Isamu Noguchi and Smith, Hinchman and Grylls
Date Built: 1979
Address: Woodward Ave. at the Detroit River
Aluminum and steel sculpture by Isamu Noguchi. Sculpture of a 24 foot long arm and fist suspended above street level, done in 1986 by Robert Graham to honor heavyweight boxing champion of the world Joe Louis.

Chene Park
Landscape Architects: Scervish, Vogel, Merz, P.C. Architects/Landscape Architects
Date Built: 1979-1991
Address: 2248 Chene St.
On the river, has amphitheatre, holds concerts.

SOSAD (Save Our Sons and Daughters)
Artist: Bradley McCallum
Address: Erma Herderson Park and Chene Park area
Date Built: as of February 1997 still in process
A memorial site exposing the public and private loss suffered form homicide in Detroit over a ten year period. I t will bear the names of over 6,000 homicide victims and recorded voices of surviving family members. Will be constructed of over 4,000 ceramic tiles painted by Detroit area children.

Belle Isle
Landscape Architect: Frederick Law Olmstead and Detroit Parks & Recreation
Address: Island at the foot of East Grand Blvd. and East Jefferson Ave.
Architectural tours, Aquarium and Whitcomb Conservatory, Concerts, Zoo.

East Lansing

Michigan State University
Demonstration Gardens,
Michigan State University Campus,
W.J. Beal Botanical Garden,
4-H Children's Garden
Landscape Architects: Michigan State University Campus Park and Planning
Founded: 1873, redesigned 1955 by Milt Baron
Address: on West Circle Dr., west of library
Teaching and research garden. Several collections on plants. Paths are labeled with information on plants.

Bloomfield Hills

Saarinen House, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Educational Community
Address: 1221 N. Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills
Interior Designer: Eliel Saarinen
House completed in 1930 to serve as the home and studio of Finnish-American architect Eliel Saarinen, Cranbrook resident architect from 1925-1950

The Albert and Peggy De La Salle Auditorium,
Cranbrook Art Museum,
Cranbrook Educational Community
Address: 1221 N. Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills
Architect: Robert Saarinen Swanson Architect, Inc., Jickling Lyman Powell Associates Inc., George Zonars Interior Designer
Designed by grandson of Eliel Saarinen in collaboration with George Zonars interior designer. Received awards from AIA.

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