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Griswold Building

Griswold Building - Detroit, Michigan

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This is a minifig scale model of the Griswold Building also currently known as the Griswold Senior Apartments located at 1214-1230 Griswold street in downtown Detroit. The prototype was designed by famous Detroit area architect Albert Kahn who also designed modern factories for Ford and other automakers. The building was completed in 1929 just at the end of Detroit's first golden age. Originally an office building, the Griswold Building was later coverted to apartments for seniors. It has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Building Statistics:

Construction Start: January 12, 2007.

Construction End: June 07, 2007.

Current Status: Apartments.

Height: Midrise.
- Roof: 89 bricks high (2.9 feet / 0.89 meters).
- Architectural Top: 96 bricks (3.0 feet / 0.92 meters).
- Spire/Antenna: n/a

Foorplate: 97 x 50 studs.

Floors: 11 (the real building has 12).

Weight: 20 pounds / 9 Kg.

Portability: Building separates into two modules for transport to MichLTC shows.

Colors:
- Light gray (old): lower facade and top floor accents.
- Brown (old): upper facade and sides.
- Red-Brown: spandrels (vertical sections between windows on upper floors).
- Tan: rear walls.
- Light blue gray: window sills.

This structure will be displayed, along with several others of mine, as part of the gaint ILTCO Lego train layout display at the NMRA NTS 2007 in Detroit on July 28-30th.

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Upper portion of the front facade. These stories are faced with brick on the real building and with limestone accents on the top floor.

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The lower three stories of the prototype are faced with limestone. On the third floor is promenade with skylights.

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View from a nearby building across the street.

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The complete facade.

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The rear of the Griswold building is rather plain as it faces an alley and the backs of the Merchants Row buildings on Woodward Avenue.

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A fictional fire escape added to provide detail on the south side of the building. The real building's south wall is obscured by the adjacent Chamber of Commerce Building.

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The small structure next to the Griswold Building is currently the Detroit Pizza Factory. A faded sign somewhat similar to the one depicted here is on the real building.

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Several stores occupy the street level of the Griswold Building.

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Another view of the entire building. The foreground should be taken up by my Lego version of the Chamber of Commerce Building which I have not yet built.

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A photo of the real building I took from Capital Park, so called because Michigan's State Capital was here briefly before it was moved to Lansing. As you may notice, I used a bit of selective compression on the Detroit Pizza Factory building. On the extreme right of the picture can be seen part of the David Stott Building, a structure that I have also modeled in Lego.

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Another of my photos showing the the real building's upper floors. Again the top of the David Stott Building can be seen to the right.

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A view showing part of the 3rd floor with its open-air promenade.

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MINARD734 ( I am druling at the awsomeness)

(from My desktop chair)

April 4, 2008

Wow! piz go to lego.com and click on factory and goto the gallery and type in MINARD734 in the user search and check out my LDD sets! their awesome!

smeckie 6887

(from venezuela)

February 16, 2008

if i had that, my sig fig would definently live tere

Max McCarthy

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(from England)

January 29, 2008

if i had more time and more lego and build something like that but thats realy cool keep up the good work.

Allan Hall

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(from northeast england)

October 25, 2007

I just wish I had the resources to build on this scale a truly amazing build.

Lynda

(from Saint Clair Shores, MI)

July 25, 2007

Just by chance I came across your site. I think it is great that you are creating lego replicas of Detroit buildings. I also put your link on my blog on GrowDetroit.com encouraging people to check out your work. I thouroughly enjoyed it. Lynda

Jan-Albert van Ree

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(from Bennekom, the Netherlands)

June 10, 2007

Awesome MOC, and also awesome pictures! Resembles the real building very closely. Loads of cool details as well, such as the wall decorations.

Chris Leach

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(from Michigan (MichLUG/MichLTC ))

June 10, 2007

Fan freaking tastic..Jim you are beyond words when building classic structures.

Wyo Daniel

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