Wayne County Building

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The Wayne County Building is a lowrise government tower in Detroit, Michigan. It stands at 600 Randolph Street, and contains the Wayne County administrative offices, and its courthouse.

It was built in 1897, and finished in 1902. It stands at 5 floors, and was built in the neo-classical architectural style. It was built usiung copper, granite, and stone.

[edit] Description

• The courthouse tower was originally 227' - 8 1/2" tall. The copper dome and spire were redone in the 1960s bringing its height to what it is today.
• A renovation was carried out in 1986 by Quinn Evans Architects and Smith, Hinchman and Grylls Associates.
• The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
• The height of the courthouse's tower is 247 feet.
• The Wayne County Building is English Baroque in style, featuring a tall, four-tiered, hipped roof central tower balanced by end pavilions.
• The exterior is profusely ornamented with sculpture; the interior is finished in a variety of woods, marbles, tiles, and mosaics.
• Built with buff Berea Sandstone, the facade features a rusticated basement story and a balustrade between the third and fourth stories. At the main entrance, a broad flight of stairs leads up to a two-story Corinthian column portico.
• Despite most Wayne County government offices having vacated this building for the modern Coleman A. Young Municipal Center a block west, the office of the executive of Wayne County is still located here.
• The courthouse is faced in granite and sandstone with copper accents.

[edit] See also

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

[edit] External links

• Wayne County Courthouse
• Google Maps location of the Wayne County Building
• Wayne County Building details at Emporis.com
• SkyscraperPage.com's Profile on Wayne County Building