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The campus of Florida Southern College includes the largest ensemble of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings at a single site. Wright designed eighteen structures for the campus, of which twelve were built over a twenty-year span, beginning in 1938. Linking all twelve buildings are covered esplanades that snake their way asymmetrically around fountains and lawns that slope down toward Lake Hollingsworth. Wright dubbed the campus...more
Pharmacist Charles Walgreen established his drugstore chain in Chicago in 1901. The smooth, streamlined exterior of this steel-framed store suits the corner site it occupies and conveys a fresh, healthy image. A low, round tower wrapped by blue and red neon signage (added c. 1949) marks the corner entrance. Inside, retail departments and a one-hundred-foot-long lunch counter originally occupied the ground floor,...more
This handsome red brick neo-Georgian house with exquisite interior woodwork was built to the plans of noted Chicago architects Holabird and Roche for a Manistee lumberman and his wife. Patrick Noud (1845–1925) came up the Great Lakes to the northwestern Lower Peninsula, where he worked as a log driver, foreman, and superintendent and eventually acquired a sawmill and lumber company in Manistee. In 1891–1892 Noud served as mayor of Manistee. ...more
The monstrous modernistic wedge-shaped granite, glass, and limestone-trimmed building, erected as the headquarters of Compuware, specialists in high-tech enterprise software and IT programs, anchors the north end of Campus Martius Park. In building here, Peter Karamanos, head of Compuware, attempted to fill the void left by the demolition of the... more
