David Stott Building

David Stott Building
General information
Type	Office
Architectural style	Art Deco
Location	1150 Griswold Street Detroit, Michigan, United States
Coordinates	42°19′55″N 83°02′55″W / 42.3320°N 83.0486°W / 42.3320; -83.0486Coordinates: 42°19′55″N 83°02′55″W / 42.3320°N 83.0486°W / 42.3320; -83.0486
Completed	1929
Height
Roof	133.1 m (437 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	37 stories
Design and construction
Architect	Donaldson and Meier
David Stott Building
U.S. Historic District Contributing Property
Part of:	Capitol Park Historic District (#99000338)
Designated CP:	March 18, 1999
References
[1]

The David Stott Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in downtown Detroit, Michigan designed by the architectural firm of Donaldson and Meier. It is a class-A office building constructed in 1929 at the corner of Griswold Street and State Street (1150 Griswold St.), a part of the Capitol Park Historic District. It is named after a businessman in Detroit who owned a mill and was on the boards of multiple other companies.^[2] It has 37 stories with three additional floors below street level. The building rises from a reddish granite base and incorporates brick, marble (on the first three floors from the street), and limestone as its surface materials. As with many of the other Detroit buildings of the era it contains architectural sculpture by Corrado Parducci. The tower's tiered summit is brightly lighted with uplights on each facade and complements the similarly lighted Westin Book Cadillac Hotel downtown. The David Stott Building neighbors 1001 Woodward to the southeast.

See also

• Art Deco
• Fisher Building
• Guardian Building

Notes

1. ^ David Stott Building at SkyscraperPage
2. ^ "David Stott Building: A LEGO creation by Jim Garrett : MOCpages.com". http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/18219. Retrieved July 17, 2009. 

References and further reading

• Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3120-3. 
• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture of America, unpublished manuscript
• Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C.P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A. (1980). Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1651-4. 
• Sharoff, Robert (2005). American City: Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3270-6. 
• Savage, Rebecca Binno and Greg Kowalski (2004). Art Deco in Detroit (Images of America). Arcadia. ISBN 0-7385-3228-2. 

Photo gallery

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  Main entrance, sculpture by Parducci

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  Compuware Headquarters in the bottom left.

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  The buildings stand together, David Stott in the middle, looking proud from Windsor.

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  Stott from Washington Blvd.

External links

• SkyscraperPage.com's Profile on the David Stott Building
• David Stott Building at Emporis.com