Cadillac Tower

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For the New Center Detroit, Michigan office tower known as "Cadillac Place", see Cadillac Place.

Cadillac Tower is a Beaux Arts skyscraper designed by the architectural firm of Bonnah & Chaffee located in downtown Detroit, Michigan, not far from the Renaissance Center. The building's materials include terra cotta and brick. It was built in 1927 and has 40 floors, including two below ground, and was named Barlum Tower. At the top of the tower is a tall guyed mast for local radio station WJLB.

From 1994 to 2000, one side of the building featured a 14-story mural of Detroit Lions star player Barry Sanders. The mural was retired after a six-year deal with Nike expired. That mural was then replaced with one of Detroit Red Wings star Steve Yzerman. Currently the building features an ad for the Pontiac Solstice automobile.

Cadillac Tower was the first building outside New York City and Chicago to have 40 floors. The building also houses the city of Detroit's Planning and Development Department, and its Recreation Department. Cadillac Tower's decorative cornices and parapets are of varying heights. The corner spires rise to a height of 427 feet (130 m), and the spires at the middle facade rise to the same height of the mechanical penthouse at a height of 437 feet (133 m).

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  • Robert Sharoff (2005). American City: Detroit Architecture 1845-2005 Wayne State University Press.

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Detroit skyscrapers
Downtown Towers with 25 or more Floors

Renaissance Center | Comerica Tower | Penobscot Building | Cadillac Tower | Guardian Building | Book Tower | David Stott Building | David Broderick Tower | Millender Center Apartments | Westin Book-Cadillac Hotel | Buhl Building | Riverfront Tower I | Riverfront Tower II |Riverfront Tower III | One Woodward Avenue | Trolley Plaza Apartments | 211 West Fort Street | Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building | 150 Jefferson Avenue (Formerly the Madden Building) | First National Building | 1001 Woodward | Detroit Edison Plaza
Downtown Towers under 25 Floors

Dime Building | Water Board Building | Blue Cross/Blue Shield Service Center | State of Michigan Plaza | Coleman A. Young Municipal Building | Wayne County Building | Penobscot Building Annex | Fox Theatre (Detroit) | SBC Building | SBC Building Addition | One Kennedy Square | Metropolitan Building (Detroit) | Detroit Free Press Building | Fort Washington Plaza | Chase Tower | Michigan Central Station | MotorCity Casino | MGM Grand Detroit | Greektown Casino
New Center and other areas

Fisher Building | Cadillac Place | Jeffersonian Apartments | 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative | Southfield Town Center | American Center | Hyatt Regency Dearborn | Top of Troy
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