Detroit Athletic Club
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| Detroit Athletic Club | |
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| Location | 241 Madison Avenue |
| Status | Complete |
| Constructed | 1915 Neo-Renaissance style |
| Use | private club |
| Floor count | 6 |
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| Architect | Albert Kahn |
The Detroit Athletic Club, sometimes called the DAC, is a very exclusive athletic club in the heart of Detroit's theater, sports, and entertainment district designed by Albert Kahn and inspired by Rome's Palazzo Farnese. Exclusive athletic clubs of this type usually maintain reciprocal agreements for their members worldwide. These clubs typically have athletic training facilities, swimming pools, recreation, fine restaurants, elegant ballrooms, guest rooms for members, and exclusive member services. Members may include executives and professional athletes. Ty Cobb is among the athletes to have been a member of the DAC. The building is visible beyond center field from Comerica Park, the home of Cobb's former team, the Detroit Tigers. The Tigers played at Navin Field when Cobb was a member of the DAC.
Over the years, the Detroit Athletic Club has provided financial assistance and training opportunities for a number of amateur athletes in their quest for Olympic glory.
At the 1956 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, springboard divers Jeanne Stunyo (a native of Gary, Indiana) and Mackenzie High School graduate Barbara Gilders-Dudeck were sponsored by the DAC. Thanks in part to the club's generosity, Stunyo and Gilders-Dudeck qualified for the Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia. At the Games, Jeanne Stunyo won the springboard diving silver medal, and Barbara Gilders-Dudeck finished in fourth place - less than one point from a bronze medal.
 DAC patio and building |
 Detroit Athletic Club's exterior at night. |
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- Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3120-3.
- Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C.P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A. (1980). Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1651-4.
- Voyles, Kenneth H. and John Bluth (2001). The Detroit Athletic Club: 1887-2001. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0738519014.
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