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Built in 1923-1927, this Beaux Arts and Italian Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Paul Philippe Cret and C. Howard Crane for the Detroit Institute of Art, founded in 1885, to replace the museum’s earlier building in Downtown that it had outgrown. The building is clad in rusticated marble cladding with a red terra cotta tile hipped roof and a cornice with modillions, three arched bays at the center of the front facade with ionic columns, and large interior courts, as well as a rear auditorium wing. The building was expanded in 1965-1971 with the addition of two wings to the north and south, originally designed by Gunnar Birkerts and formerly clad in dark granite, which were later renovated in 2007 under the direction of Michael Graves Associates and SmithGroup, completely renovating the additions and refacing them with white granite, as well as adding a glass roof above the formerly open-air Kresge Court within the original structure. The museum is a contributing structure in the Cultural Center Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Today, the museum contains one of the most significant collections of art in the United States, and is an anchor of the Cultural Center section of Midtown.
Built in 1883, this Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style building was designed by Mason and Rice, and expanded to its present size in 1891 under the direction of Malcomson and Higginbotham for the congregation of Cass Avenue Methodist Church, founded in 1880. The building is clad in rough-hewn sandstone with a cross-gable roof, a corner tower with a hipped roof, roman arched bays with stained glass windows and blind arched panels above the doorways, and decorative carved stone trim. The building is a contributing structure in the Willis–Selden Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Today, the congregation, known as Cass Community United Methodist Church, remains a fixture of the Midtown area.
Built in 1931-1935, this Gothic Revival-style building was constructed to house the Saint Louis University school of Commerce and Finance. The building is clad in red brick with limestone trim, gothic arched bays on the second and third floors and towers, a hipped and gabled slate roof, pinnacles at the towers, stone trim surrounds and gothic arched transoms at the entrances, brick buttresses, oriel windows, one-over-one windows with transom’s, and a rough-hewn stone base. The building is a contributing structure in the Midtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and today houses the Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business.