A fancifully-designed savings-&-loan from 1961 is a fancifully-designed nightclub now.

Here was the nightclub "Stateum Nights." The panels of OSB are trashy-looking!

 

Everybody likes to look at undulating thin-shell roofs. Do you like to look at patterns of square holes in tapered retaining walls.

 

The building was the Mount Clemens Federal Savings and Loan Association, built 1961, designed by William Kessler. In 2008 it was converted to the nightclub "The Bank" a/k/a "The Bank Nightlife," which closed circa 2010. Per this news article, it then became the nightclub "The Vault," which closed in 2013, and then became Stateum Nights circa 2019. I love nightclubs!

 

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In downtown Mount Clemens, Michigan, on July 31st, 2021, at the southeast corner of South Main Street and Terry Street.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Macomb (county) (1002617)

• Mount Clemens (2052720)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• banks (buildings) (300005214)

• columns (architectural elements) (300001571)

• curved (300010305)

• geometric patterns (300165213)

• gold (color) (300311191)

• Mid-Century Modernist (300343610)

• nightclubs (300007107)

• openwork (300253899)

• oriented strand board (300380238)

• paint (coating) (300015029)

• remodeling (300135427)

• repurposing (300417716)

• retaining walls (300005073)

• shell structures (300001276)

 

Wikidata items:

• 31 July 2021 (Q69306130)

• 1960s in architecture (Q11185676)

• 1961 in architecture (Q2812275)

• concrete shell (Q3737546)

• July 31 (Q2715)

• July 2021 (Q61312805)

• Metro Detroit (Q1925718)

• savings and loan association (Q2091703)

• Southeast Michigan (Q3502886)

• Treaty of Detroit (Q1639077)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Roofs, Shell (sh85115342)

 

Union List of Artist Names IDs:

• Kessler, William H. (American architect, born 1924) (500067887)

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