Wayne County Building
The temptation to mis-represent this downtown Detroit building as Leeds Town Hall had to be resisted, but the similarities between it and Cuthbert Broderick’s Yorkshire masterpiece are uncanny. The statuary atop the Wayne County Building also reminded me of Hull Guildhall. It would surely fit seamlessly into a Northern English industrial city.
As Wayne County Courthouse, it was completed in 1902 to the designs of John and Arthur Scott, earning contemporary praise as “one of the most sumptuous buildings in Michigan”.
Latterly containing the Wayne County administrative offices, the building has been unoccupied since 2014.
Wayne County Building
The temptation to mis-represent this downtown Detroit building as Leeds Town Hall had to be resisted, but the similarities between it and Cuthbert Broderick’s Yorkshire masterpiece are uncanny. The statuary atop the Wayne County Building also reminded me of Hull Guildhall. It would surely fit seamlessly into a Northern English industrial city.
As Wayne County Courthouse, it was completed in 1902 to the designs of John and Arthur Scott, earning contemporary praise as “one of the most sumptuous buildings in Michigan”.
Latterly containing the Wayne County administrative offices, the building has been unoccupied since 2014.