- Wright-Kay Building
Infobox Skyscraper
building_name = Wright-Kay Building (Schwankovsky Temple of Music)
| built =1891
use =office
location = 1500 Woodward Ave.Detroit, Michigan USA
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top_floor =
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floor_count = 6
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architect =Gordon W. Lloyd | skyscraperpage_id = |The Wright-Kay Building, originally the Schwankovsky Temple of Music, is one of the oldest buildings in
Detroit, Michigan . It was completed in1891 , and sat on the growing fringe of Detroit's Woodward Ave. It is betweenGrand Circus Park andCampus Martius Park , at the corner of Woodward and John R. It was later used by the founders of Wright-Kay jewelry from 1920 to 1978. Its current use includes a nightclub on the first floor with offices and residential units above. In 1980, the building was listed on the State of Michigan's Historical Register as #P25241.The building was constructed for the F. J. Schwankovsky Company, a retailer of musical instruments. The second floor of the structure contains a one-time concert ballroom. The Schwankovsky Company went out of business several decades after the building opened. It is a
Queen Anne style building with brick andbrownstone trim. The cornerturrets extend from the second to fifth floors. The building was erected using a cast iron frame and was the first in Detroit with an electricalelevator — a technology that facilitated theskyscraper .References and further reading
* Olenek, Mark [http://www.michmarkers.com/Pages/L0847.htm Schwankovsky Temple of Music] . (Accessed 14 August 2007).
* "Detroit 1701". [http://detroit1701.org/Schwankovsky.htm Schwankovsky Building] . (Accessed 14 August 2007).
*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 0-8143-3270-6External links
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Detroit,+MI&ie=UTF8&ll=42.335136,-83.048079&spn=0.002248,0.006394&t=k&om=1 Google Maps location of the Schwankovsky Building]
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