Lafayette Towers Apartments East

Lafayette Towers Apartments East.

Lafayette Towers Apartments East (1301 Orleans Street, Detroit, Michigan) is one of two apartment buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe.

The apartment is in the Lafayette Park development, near downtown. It was built in 1963 and stand at 22 storeys in height. It was built in the international style of architecture, much like the Lafayette Pavillion Apartments, and the other buildings in the development.

Along with the other neighboring Mies van der Rohe-designed buildings, these buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

These are two of four towers in the Lafayette Park development. The other two are the Windsor Tower, and the Lafayette Pavillion Apartments.