Detroit News Complex, Publishing headquarters in downtown Detroit, United States.
The Detroit News Complex comprises two buildings on West Lafayette Boulevard: the 1915–17 Detroit News Building, a six-story steel-frame structure clad in buff Indiana limestone over a gray granite base, with ground-level arches between raised piers, and the 1924 five-story Art Deco parking garage across Third Avenue, topped by rooftop parking.
The building opened in 1917 and served as the main headquarters for the Detroit News newspaper for nearly a century. In 2015, it gained recognition from the National Register of Historic Places, formally establishing its status as a significant historic structure.
The site hosted station WWJ, which broadcast the first commercial radio transmission in America during 1920. This connection to radio history remains woven into the building's identity.
The complex occupies a full city block: the six-story News Building faces West Lafayette Boulevard at 615, while the 200-space, five-story parking garage stands across Third Avenue at 901 West Lafayette. Both are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The newspaper offices closed in 2013 and the building passed to Bedrock Real Estate in 2014, so the interiors are not open as a newsroom.
The site once held the 1858 home of Zachariah Chandler, a remnant of the fashionable residential district that preceded the newspaper block. The News bought the block in 1913 for $250,000. The 1924 parking garage across Third Avenue held retail shops and a full-service garage alongside its 200 spaces.
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