Kales Building

Infobox Skyscraper
building_name = Kales Building

| built = 1914, 2004
Neo-Classical
Neo-Renaissance
use = residential
location = 76 West Adams
Detroit, Michigan USA
roof = 258 ft (79 m)
top_floor =
antenna_spire =
floor_count = 18
floor_area =
architect = Albert Kahn| skyscraperpage_id = |

The Kales Building is a high-rise apartment building in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It's located 76 West Adams at the northeast corner of Adams Avenue West and Park Avenue, across from Grand Circus Park, in the Foxtown neighbourhood, just north of Downtown. The building was designed by Albert Kahn and constructed in 1914, and stands at 18 floors, with one basement floor, for a total of 19 floors in height. The building is also home to BCI Industries. It was recently renovated in 2004.

When completed in 1914, the Kales Building housed the headquarters of the Kresge Corporation, forerunner of retailing giant K-mart. The Kales Building was renovated in 2004 into 117 residential units with ground-level retail. Appropriately, Detroit architect Kahn went beyond the typical Chicago School and styled the Kales Building with a clean-lined detail facade with Neo-classical and Renaissance revival elements such as the hipped roof and arched upper windows.

The building currently houses an underground crew dedicated to the positivity of the city of Detroit.

Ashland Bump Enterprises ("ABE") is considering relocating to the building. Due to explosive growth, ABE is experiencing capacity constraints in their current quarters, which is just east of the famous bump.

References and further reading

*Cite book | author=Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher | title= AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture| year=2002 | publisher= Wayne State University Press | id=ISBN 0-8143-3120-3
*Cite book | author=Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C.P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A.| title=Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition | year= 1980| publisher= Wayne State University Press| id = ISBN 0-8143-1651-4
*Cite book | author= Sharoff, Robert | title=American City: Detroit Architecture| publisher=Wayne State University Press| year=2005| id=ISBN 0-8143-3270-6

External links

* [http://www.kales76.com/ The Kales Building]
* [http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=10214 SkyscraperPage.com's profile on Kales Building]