Detroit Free Press Building
Detroit, United States
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Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Completed in 1925, the Detroit Free Press Building is a 14-story Art Deco structure in downtown Detroit designed by Albert Kahn Associates. Originally constructed as the newspaper's headquarters, the building housed the Free Press's printing operations until 1979 and remained the company's offices until 1998, when the paper merged with The Detroit News. After sitting vacant for nearly two decades, the building underwent redevelopment by Bedrock Detroit in the late 2010s and reopened in 2020 as a residential complex called The Press/321. Now designated as both a Michigan State Historic Site and a contributing property to the National Register of Historic Places, the building exemplifies the modernist industrial aesthetic that characterized Detroit's early twentieth-century commercial architecture.
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- Built
- Type
- office building, apartment building
- Heritage
- Michigan State Historic Site, National Register of Historic Places contributing property
- Place
- Detroit, United States
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