1300 Lafayette East Cooperative, Residential cooperative building in Lafayette Park, Detroit, United States.
1300 Lafayette East Cooperative is a 30-story residential building in the Lafayette Park neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan. The reinforced concrete tower has a two-story marble lobby at street level and offers units ranging from studios to four-bedroom apartments, with commercial and office spaces on the mezzanine floor.
The building was designed by architect Gunnar Birkerts and completed in 1964 as a rental apartment tower. In the late 1970s, residents organized to take ownership of the property and officially converted it into a tenant-controlled cooperative in 1979.
The building is one of the few residential towers in Lafayette Park where residents manage the property together as a cooperative, giving daily life there a communal character. Decisions about the building are made collectively, which sets it apart from most other high-rises in the city.
This is primarily a private residential building, so interior areas are accessible only to residents and their guests. The exterior and the surrounding Lafayette Park area are easy to walk around and are best visited during daylight hours.
Large numerals spelling out the address 1300 are mounted on the roof of the building and can be read from across the Detroit River in Windsor, Canada. They were not planned as decoration but originally served as an orientation aid for people navigating the area.
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