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For the New Center Detroit skyscraper, see Cadillac Place.

This article is about the Detroit skyscraper Cadillac Tower. For the attached skyscraper complex approved for construction, see Cadillac Centre.

Information
Cadillac Tower
Looking up from Cadillac Square.
Location	65 Cadillac Square Detroit, Michigan United States
Status	Complete
Constructed	1927 Beaux-Arts style
Use	Office
Height
Antenna/Spire	176.2 m
Roof	133.4 m (437 ft)
Floor count	40
Companies
Architect	Bonnah & Chaffee

Barlum Tower
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Location:	Detroit, Michigan
Coordinates:	42°19′53″N 83°2′51″W / 42.33139, -83.0475Coordinates: 42°19′53″N 83°2′51″W / 42.33139, -83.0475
Built/Founded:	1927
Architect:	Bonnah & Chaffee; Otto Misch Co.
Architectural style(s):	Late Gothic Revival
Added to NRHP:	July 27, 2005
NRHP Reference#:	05000737^[1]
Governing body:	Private

Cadillac Tower is a Beaux Arts skyscraper designed by the architectural firm of Bonnah & Chaffee located at 65 Cadillac Square in downtown Detroit, Michigan, not far from the Renaissance Center. The building's materials include terra cotta and brick. It was built in 1927 as the Barlum Tower and has 40 floors, including two below ground. At the top of the tower is a tall guyed mast for local radio station WJLB.

1 History
2 Photo gallery
3 Notes
4 References and further reading
5 External links

History

Cadillac Tower was the first building outside New York City and Chicago to have 40 floors. The building also houses the city of Detroit's Planning and Development Department, and its Recreation Department. Cadillac Tower's decorative cornices and parapets are of varying heights. The corner spires rise to a height of 427 feet (130 m), and the spires at the middle facade rise to the same height of the mechanical penthouse at a height of 437 feet (133 m).

From 1994 to 2000, one side of the building featured a 14-story mural of Detroit Lions star player Barry Sanders. The mural was retired after a six-year deal with Nike expired. That mural was then replaced with one of Detroit Red Wings star Steve Yzerman. Currently the building features an ad for the Pontiac G8 automobile. THe building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

In January 2008, the City of Detroit and Cadillac Tower's owner Northern Group, Inc., announced plans for Cadillac Centre, a $150-million mixed-use residential entertainment-retail complex attached to the skyscraper. Designed by architect Anthony Caradonna, the contemporary steel and glass 24-story center will fill in the currently vacant Monroe Block adjacent to Campus Martius and is planned to begin construction in the fall of 2009. Various renderings show Cadillac Tower partially reclad in glass.^[2]

Photo gallery

Cadillac Tower from Greektown.

Cadillac Square.

Notes

^ "National Register Information System", National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, 2008-04-15, http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
^ PRNewswire (January 6, 2008).Detroit Gets New Era in Downtown Living With Iconic $150 Million Cadillac Centre on Campus Martius Park. Retrieved on January 13, 2008.

References and further reading

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.
Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture of America, unpublished manuscript
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.
Sharoff, Robert (2005). American City: Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3270-6.
Savage, Rebecca Binno and Greg Kowalski (2004). Art Deco in Detroit (Images of America). Arcadia. ISBN 0-7385-3228-2.

External links

v • d • e Architecture of metropolitan Detroit

City's 10 tallest to 73 stories	Renaissance Center • Comerica Tower • Penobscot • RenCen Towers 100-400 • Guardian • 150 West Jefferson • Book Tower

20 tallest	Fisher • Cadillac Tower • Stott • One Woodward Avenue • McNamara • Detroit Edison • Broderick • 211 West Fort • Buhl • Westin Book-Cadillac Hotel • Greektown Casino

30 tallest	First National • Cadillac Centre • RenCen Towers 500-600 • 1001 Woodward • Milleder Center • Jeffersonian • AT&T • Dime • Blue Cross • Coleman A. Young Municipal Center

40 tallest	Penobscot Annex • Lafayette East • Riverfront Tower 300 • Riverfront Tower 200 • Whitney • Washington Square • Riverfront Tower 100 • Water Board • State of Michigan Plaza • Washington Boulevard

50 - 195 tallest	Riverside Hotel • Fort Shelby Hotel • Industrial-Stevens • Courtyard by Marriott • Ford • Fyfe • Grand Park Centre • Compuware • United Artists Theatre • Michigan Central Station • Cadillac Place

60 - 195 tallest	MGM Grand Detroit • MotorCity Casino • Chase Tower • Maccabees • Fort Washington Plaza • One Kennedy Square • Detroit Free Press • Lafayette • Metropolitan • Wardell • Hotel Stevenson

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New Center to 30 stories	Fisher • Cadillac Place • New Center Building • Argonaut Building • Wayne State University Buildings • Henry Ford Hospital

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