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Wayne County Building
Wayne County Building: Detroit December 2019 02 (Wayne County Building)
Wayne County Building: County Building, Detroit, Mich (NYPL b12647398-66883)
Wayne County Building: Wayne County Building from the northwest, 2017

Photo: Scan by NYPL · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

Courthouse · Detroit, United States

Wayne County Building

On the globe
Dated
Dated 1897–1902
Declared purpose
County courthouse and offices
Today
Survives, offices
Build time
About 5 years
Region
United States
Architect of record
John Scott, architect: about when credited (1896, born ). Build time on record: about 5 years.All architects of record →
On the list as
Documented

Hidden history

Found, Not Built

A Roman Baroque county building with a domed tower and bronze quadrigas.

  1. Quadrigas

    Bronze chariot groups crown the tower, like European palaces.

  2. Saved

    It was restored in the 1980s after the county moved out.

Questions worth asking

  • Why chariot groups on a county building?

Possible original uses

  • Courthouse

What the photos show

Sources

Further viewing

Episodes from My Lunch Break (Michael Kruse), the main lens for this app. They open on YouTube.

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