Ford Building, Neoclassical high-rise office building in Downtown Detroit, United States.
The Ford Building rises 250 feet with nineteen stories, featuring a steel frame structure covered in white terra cotta at Griswold and Congress Streets.
The structure, completed in 1908 by architect Daniel Burnham, remained Detroit's tallest building until 1913 and marked the start of modern construction in the city.
Attorney Clarence Darrow managed the defense of the 1926 Ossian Sweet trials from his office on the seventeenth floor of this commercial landmark.
The building contains six elevators serving its 202,686 square feet of office and retail space across nineteen floors and two basement levels.
The construction required 4,000 tons of steel, 10 million pounds of cement, and nearly 3 million bricks to complete the architectural masterwork.
Location: Detroit
Inception: 1908
Architects: Daniel Burnham
Architectural style: Neoclassical architecture
Elevators: 6
GPS coordinates: 42.32930,-83.04640
Latest update: May 16, 2025 03:05
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