The Guardian Building

DETROIT - GUARDIAN BUILDING - Architectural Wonder - Aerial Views

I love architecture and to my surprise I found a lot of it in Detroit. It is hard to imagine that this city that fell on such hard times retains such a rich architectural heritage. Two obvious skyscrapers to start with would be the Guardian Building and the Fisher Building that I will highlight in next week's vlog. Detroit's architecture is recognized as being among the finest in the U.S. with the National Trust for Historic Preservation listing many of Detroit's skyscrapers and buildings as some of America's most endangered landmarks. Detroit has one of the largest surviving collections of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century buildings in the U.S. Meanwhile, the suburbs contain some significant contemporary architecture and several historic estates.
The Guardian Building is a landmark skyscraper in the United States, located at 500 Griswold Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Financial District. The Guardian is a class-A office building owned by Wayne County, Michigan and serves as its headquarters. Built in 1928 and finished in 1929, the building was originally called the Union Trust Building[3] and is a bold example of Art Deco architecture, including art moderne designs.[4] At the top of the Guardian Building's spire is a large American Flag, complementing the four smaller flags atop nearby 150 West Jefferson. The building has undergone recent award-winning renovations. It was designated a National Historic Landmark on June 29, 1989,[1] and the associated Detroit Financial District is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Guardian building includes retail and a tourist gift shop.
Guardian Building entrance lobby — with two-story Art Deco entrance screen of Monel metal, and walls and vaulted ceiling decorated with mosaics and Pewabic Pottery and Rookwood Pottery glazed tiles. The Ezra Winter mural, Michigan, can be seen in the middle, through the metal grill. The 1929 Art Deco style Union Trust Building—Guardian Building is located at 500 Griswold Street, Downtown Detroit, Michigan. Designed by Wirt C. Rowland of Smith, Hinchman and Grylls architects, and built by Gorham Co. of Providence, Rhode Island (1928-1929). The building's interior, which gave rise to the building's nickname Cathedral of Finance, has undergone a full restoration (2006). A contributing property in the Detroit Financial Historic District, and on the National Register of Historic Places.
The main frame of the skyscraper rises 36 stories, capped by two asymmetric spires, one extending for four additional stories. The roof height of the building is 496 ft (151 m), the top floor is 489 feet (149 m), and the spire reaches 632 ft (192.6 m). Its nickname, Cathedral of Finance, alludes both to the building's resemblance to a cathedral, with its tower over the main entrance and octagonal apse at the opposite end and to New York City's Woolworth Building, which had earlier been dubbed the Cathedral of Commerce.[4]Native American themes are common inside and outside the building. Wirt C. Rowland, of the Smith, Hinchman & Grylls firm, was the building's architect. The building rises from a granite and stone six story base with two Corrado Parducci created sculptures flanking the Griswold Street entrance. The exterior blends brickwork with tile, limestone, and terra cotta. Rowland's attention to detail was meticulous. He supervised the creation of the colored brick cladding to achieve the desired color for the exterior. Afterward, the brick was marketed by the manufacturer as Union Trust Brick and after 1939, as Guardian brick.[5]Rowland designed furniture for the bank's offices and his attention went as far as designing tableware, linens and waitress uniforms for a restaurant in the building.
The building's three story, vaulted lobby is lavishly decorated with Pewabic and Rookwood tile. The semi-circular exterior domes are filled with Pewabic Pottery; Mary Chase Perry Stratton worked closely with the architect in the design of the symbolic decorations.[6] (See Savage, infra.) A Monel metal screen divides the lobby from the banking hall on the second floor, the screen features a clock in the center designed by Tiffany. The building includes works by muralist Ezra Winter in the mosaic above the main lobby desk and the mural at the end of the banking hall.[7] The large mosaic is of a pine tree and text that states the Union Trust Company's purpose for the building, Founded on principles of faith and understating, this building is erected for the purpose of continuing and maintaining the ideals of financial services which promoted the organization of the institution. The mural highlight’s Michigan’s industries such as manufacturing, farming and mining. In order to dampen the sound in the banking hall, its cement-plaster ceiling features a hand-painted canvas ceiling, which was stretched over a mat of horsehair.

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The Guardian Building is a landmark skyscraper in the United States, located at 500 Griswold Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Financial District.

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Penobscot Building Detroit MI

The Penobscot Building, is a skyscraper in downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. Rising 566 feet (172.3 m), the 47-story Penobscot was the tallest building in Michigan from its completion in 1928 until the construction of the Renaissance Center's central tower in 1977. The tower has 2 basement floors, and 45 above-ground floors, for a total of 47. The building serves as a wireless fiber optic internet hub of the city's downtown area.

Upon its completion, it was the eighth tallest building in the world and the tallest outside New York City and Chicago. Like many of the city's other Roaring Twenties buildings, it displays Art Deco influences, including its H shape (designed to allow maximum sunlight into the building) and the sculptural setbacks that cause the upper floors to progressively erode. The building's architect, Wirt C. Rowland, also designed such Detroit skyscrapers as the Guardian Building and the Buhl Building in the same decade. At night, the building's upper floors are lit in floodlight fashion, topped with a red sphere.

The building is named for the Penobscot, a Native American tribe from Maine.

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An historic building in Midtown Detroit reopened after being rehabilitated.

Tour of the Boblo boat SS Columbia - Sept. 16, 2014

HistoricDetroit.org does a walkthrough of the historic steam SS Columbia, one of the storied Boblo boats in Detroit, on Sept. 16, 2014 -- the day that it left Michigan for the last time, as it heads for restoration and return to service in New York state.

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In the last 12 months the city of Dearborn, MI has been thrown into conflict. A conflict about fear, ideology and identity politics –which has at its heart the central question of what it means to be an American today. Home to the largest mosque in North America, it is a place of apparent contradictions: simultaneously a sleepy affluent suburb and the subject of rumours around ISIS terror cells and sharia law.

This film takes us into the lives of five very different citizens who have been caught in the crossfire, from Muslims to Christians, citizen militias and young university graduates. For all, their American identity is paramount. As they grapple with questions of religion, race and class, do these separate communities have more in common than they realise?

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Detroit: the City that Never Stops

In today’s video, we see Lisa and Bill’s favourite parts of the city, as well as some hidden gems. The tour starts at the Guardian Building, a 40-floor skyscraper and prominent piece of classic Art Deco architecture with a beautiful brick exterior. After, we admire the Penobscot Building, an office tower which is also another fine example of Detroit’s Art Deco architecture with a beautiful structure both inside and out, complete with museum-quality ornaments – ‘It’s kind of the Empire State Building of Detroit’, says Bill.

After exploring the bustling district of the Downtown area, we go to see some of the lesser known central areas of the city. Along the way we visit the historic Brush Park mansions, where one of the houses is actually the reason why Lisa decided to become an architect; we stop by Cass Corridor, an area that had a bad reputation before, but which is now going through a redevelopment phase; and then we go on to see the Eastern Market, an open-air marketplace that has been operating for over 150 years and is the oldest, continuously running market in the United States.

For lovers of vintage and second-hand bits and pieces, we visit a vintage shop called Antiques, where time seems to vanish as you look through piles of old, high-quality wonders. After, we stop at Dequindre Cut, a former railroad line which is now a pedestrian greenway link decorated with graffiti masterpieces that connects Riverfront and Eastern Market to other parts of the city. And, of course, no trip to Detroit would be complete without understanding its unofficial motto – ‘Nothing Stops Detroit.

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DETROIT - PANORAMIC VIEWS - OBSERVATION POINTS

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One of the delights of visiting the world's great cities it to get a view from the top that gives an unobstructed panoramic view so to speak. Most of these cities are even branded with these observation points. For example, Paris with the Eiffel Tower, London with Big Ben, and Shanghai with the Oriental Pearl Tower. In this vlog I try and find points in downtown Detroit that give the best bird's eye views of the downtown area. I try and find if for the most part lacking. Join me in my search for what Detroit has to offer TODAY and what it has to offer in the near future in the selection of viewpoints of the Motor City. Detroit is within a few years of getting this major upgrade on observation points ....have a look.


As I write this it occurs to me that I left out perhaps one of the best views of Detroit and that it from Windsor Ontario Canada, just across the Detroit River. The view is superb of the Detroit Skyline but it is not a bird's eye view so in theory it is not eligible but I suppose I could have gone to the top of Windsor's Caesar's Palace Casino for a view. Anyway was left out. So let's talk about what was included....no let's leave that for the video. I do want to say however that while the selection of observation points at this point is somewhat limited there are some major upgrades coming in the next few years. One of these particularly with put Detroit into big city territory.
Downtown Detroit is the central business district and a residential area of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Detroit is the major city in the larger Metro Detroit region. Downtown Detroit is bordered by M-10 (Lodge Freeway) to the west, Interstate 75 (I-75, Fisher Freeway) to the north, I-375 (Chrysler Freeway) to the east, and the Detroit River to the south. The city's main thoroughfare M-1 (Woodward Avenue) links Downtown to Midtown, New Center, and the North End
Downtown contains much historic architecture and many of the prominent skyscrapers in Detroit, including the Renaissance Center, the Penobscot Building, One Detroit Center, and the Guardian Building. Historic churches, theatres, and commercial buildings anchor the various downtown districts. Downtown has a number of parks including those linked by a promenade along the International Riverfront. Its central square is Campus Martius Park. In recent years the downtown area has seen tremendous growth and redevelopment. Since 2000 a number of major construction projects have been completed including the new Compuware Headquarters at Campus Martius Park and two new stadiums: Comerica Park and Ford Field. General Motors moved their headquarters into the Renaissance Center, and the Detroit Lions have relocated from Pontiac to Downtown Detroit. High-profile events like the 2005 MLB All-Star Game, Super Bowl XL, and the 2006 and 2012 World Series have taken place in downtown, generating income for local businesses and spurring more growth.[1] As a result, new residents are moving into Detroit in the assortment of new lofts that are opening. An example of these trends is the Westin Book-Cadillac Hotel. In 2006, the Cleveland-based Ferchill Group began the $180 million redevelopment of the historic Book Cadlliac Hotel at the corner of Washington Blvd. and Michigan Avenue. The project, which has been hailed by preservationists houses a 455-room Westin Hotel, 67 high-end condominiums, and two to three restaurants, and some miscellaneous retail serving hotel and conference center guests. DTE Energy Headquarters features an urban oasis of parks, walkways, and a reflecting pool.
In 2007, Downtown Detroit was named among the best big city neighborhoods in which to retire by CNN Money Magazine editors.[3] Downtown contains popular destinations including, the International Riverfront, the MGM Grand Detroit, Greektown Casino Hotel, and many sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The J.L. Hudson Building (Hudson's) was a department store located at 1206 Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was constructed beginning in 1911, with additions throughout the years, before being completed in 1946, and named after the company's founder, Joseph Lowthian Hudson. Hudson's first building on the site opened in 1891 but was demolished in 1923 for a new structure. It was the flagship store for the Hudson's chain. The building was demolished in a controlled demolition on October 24, 1998, with many people watching from Hart Plaza (Detroit) and Dieppe Gardens (Windsor, Ontario). It was the tallest building ever imploded. That will now be replaced by this:

Wayne County Building, Downtown, and the Whitney (1990)

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U-Matic S tape containing footage shot of Cadillac Square, the interior of the Wayne County Building, the Financial District, the exterior of the Detroit Club, Washington Boulevard, Grand Circus Park, and the interior of the Whitney. Most of the footage is silent.

The video begins with a brief clip of Mayor Coleman A. Young speaking at a church with a wooden paneled interior.
Then from Cadillac Square, the camera pans and zooms about, capturing the statues, steps, and other exterior details of the Wayne Country Building, the distant Book Tower and surrounding skyline, and Cadillac Tower.

The camera then moves inside of the Wayne County Building, where it captures the main staircase, lobby, halls, floor and ceiling mosaics, stained glass, and door details. The camera operator also films inside of an ornate courtroom. Signs for county officials Milton Mack, Edward Boike, Jr., Ricardo A. Solomon are situated at seats in the courtroom. The camera also focuses on details in the room such as the clock, marble columns, and the view from its windows across the building's courtyard. The camera also pans around room 300, a large conference room where a small group appears to be informally meeting.

The camera then moves to the city's Financial District for a series of exterior shots. These include a southwesterly view along Congress Street, west of Griswold Street. the Buhl Building, a flower vendor set up on the sidewalk outside of the Buhl Building, the Ford Building, the Guardian Building, a northwesterly view along Griswold Street from Congress, the Penobscot Building, and the National Bank of Detroit.

The next segment begins with exterior shots of the Detroit Club at 712 Cass Avenue. The camera then moves to Washington Boulevard, south of Michigan Avenue, for shots of the Detroit Citizen's Railway trolley, the pedestrian mall, the Book Cadillac Hotel, a zoom in and out from the distant steeple of Central United Methodist Church, the Alexander Macomb Monument, the top of the Detroit Edison General Services Building,

The camera is then repositioned at the east corner of Woodward Avenue and Adams Avenue. It pans around in a full circle several times from Central United Methodist Church, around Grand Circus Park, and catches traffic along Woodward Avenue. An advertisement for Sam Raimi's film Darkman appears on the side of a passing Detroit Department of Transportation Bus passing along Woodward.

The final section of the tape features the interior of the Whitney. The camera pans around to feature its tapestries, dining areas, upstairs bar, staircase and furniture.

The video is on a 3M UCA 30s U-Matic S tape with a handwritten 3M label on its top. The tape is housed within a latching black plastic case with a label on its cover.

Coleman A. Young 1973 Promo Footage

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Silent 16mm film containing footage presumably shot for a commercial for Coleman A. Young's 1973 campaign for mayor. The footage is composed of a variety of shots, mostly centered fire-damaged and abandoned homes, storefronts, and industrial buildings, but also featuring shots of people on Detroit's streets. Among the footage are shots of the Edison Hotel, a playground beside a dilapidated wooden building, several pans from the Comerica Building and the Guardian Building to the weathered facades of the nearby Second Williams Block, and First Williams Block on Monroe Avenue, a pan across the other buildings of the Monroe Block, and shots of a both workers unloading a freighter on the city's riverfront as well as a smashed car.

The video is on a blue 12-inch plastic Plio Magic reel in a matching blue plastic canister. A typewritten mailing label addressed to Robert Berg at the Mayor's Office is on the front.

Downtown Detroit - Including Ford Field Lion's Stadium (Detroit, Michigan)

A little look at downtown detroit and the Lion's stadium (NFL Team). After visiting over 200 cities in the USA, then ranks at the veryyy bottom of my list!! Once you step even one foot out of the main business district, you're welcomed with: abandoned buildings, gansters, please trying to sell you porn, pan handlers, convenience stores with glass barriers... It's just not a great place to be! Whoever sung Detroit, I love this city was obviously on crack! LOTS OF IT!

Downtown Detroit is the central business district and a residential area of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Detroit is the major city in the larger Metro Detroit region. Downtown Detroit is bordered by M-10 (Lodge Freeway) to the west, Interstate 75 (I-75, Fisher Freeway) to the north, I-375 (Chrysler Freeway) to the east, and the Detroit River to the south. The city's main thoroughfare M-1 (Woodward Avenue) links Downtown to Midtown and New Center.

Downtown contains much historic architecture and many of the prominent skyscrapers in Detroit, including the Renaissance Center, the Penobscot Building, One Detroit Center, and the Guardian Building. Historic churches, theatres, and commercial buildings anchor the various downtown districts. Downtown has a number of parks including those linked by a promenade along the International Riverfront. Its central square is Campus Martius Park.

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Walking Tour of Downtown Detroit | 4k Dji Mobile 2 | Ambient Music

Recently I was in Detroit for a quick visit and fell in love with the city. Downtown Detroit is so full of life and has so much to offer. So please enjoy this walking tour of Downtown Detroit.

Downtown Detroit is the central business district and a residential area of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Detroit is the major city in the larger Metro Detroit region. Downtown Detroit is bordered by M-10 (Lodge Freeway) to the west, Interstate 75 (I-75, Fisher Freeway) to the north, I-375 (Chrysler Freeway) to the east, and the Detroit River to the south. The city's main thoroughfare M-1 (Woodward Avenue) links Downtown to Midtown, New Center, and the North End.

Downtown contains much historic architecture and many of the prominent skyscrapers in Detroit, including the Renaissance Center, the Penobscot Building, One Detroit Center, and the Guardian Building. Historic churches, theatres, and commercial buildings anchor the various downtown districts. Downtown has a number of parks including those linked by a promenade along the International Riverfront. Its central square is Campus Martius Park.

In recent years the downtown area has seen tremendous growth and redevelopment. Since 2000 a number of major construction projects have been completed including the new Compuware Headquarters at Campus Martius Park and two new stadiums: Comerica Park and Ford Field. General Motors moved their headquarters into the Renaissance Center, and the Detroit Lions have relocated from Pontiac to Downtown Detroit. High-profile events like the 2005 MLB All-Star Game, Super Bowl XL, and the 2006 and 2012 World Series have taken place in downtown, generating income for local businesses and spurring more growth.[1] As a result, new residents are moving into Detroit in the assortment of new lofts that are opening. An example of these trends is the Westin Book-Cadillac Hotel. In 2006, the Cleveland-based Ferchill Group began the $180 million redevelopment of the historic Book Cadlliac Hotel at the corner of Washington Blvd. and Michigan Avenue. The project, which has been hailed by preservationists houses a 455-room Westin Hotel, 67 high-end condominiums, and two to three restaurants, and some miscellaneous retail serving hotel and conference center guests. DTE Energy Headquarters features an urban oasis of parks, walkways, and a reflecting pool.[2]

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