Ah the tallest skyscraper in Mount Clemens, Michigan: an art deco government building in thirteen stories of Indiana limestone, 219 feet tall, built from 1931 to 1944, designed by the former mayor of Hamtramck. Funfacts!

It is the "Macomb County Building."

 

Yea verily architect George J. Haas was mayor of Hamtramck. The first five stories were finished and occupied by 1933, and the rest was built in stages through 1944. Great Depression!

 

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In downtown Mount Clemens, Michigan, on July 31st, 2021, the Macomb County Building at intersection of Cass Avenue with North Main Street and Gratiot Avenue (Highway M-3).

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Macomb (county) (1002617)

• Mount Clemens (2052720)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• architectural sculpture (300379328)

• county courthouses (300005979)

• Art Deco (300021426)

• busts (sculpture) (300417950)

• high-rise buildings (300004810)

• Indiana limestone (300011321)

• public buildings (governmental buildings) (300008059)

 

Wikidata items:

• 31 July 2021 (Q69306130)

• 1930s in architecture (Q16482516)

• 1940s in architecture (Q60996001)

• 1944 in architecture (Q2811846)

• Art Deco architecture (Q12720942)

• Great Depression (Q8698)

• July 31 (Q2715)

• July 2021 (Q61312805)

• M-3 (Q435735)

• Metro Detroit (Q1925718)

• Southeast Michigan (Q3502886)

• Treaty of Detroit (Q1639077)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• County government (sh85033484)

• Courthouses—Michigan (sh94008985)

• Public buildings—Michigan (sh98007914)

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