The Detroit News Building, The World’s Greatest Newspaper Plant

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Color-tinted postcard image of a three story building designed by Albert Kahn for the Detroit News in 1916. (http://www.historicdetroit.org/building/detroit-news-building/ Accessed 12/12/16). Additional text, "The Detroit News Building, Exclusive of its garage, Occupies a Full City Block". Description on back "Founded in 1873 by James Edmund Scripps, The Detroit News has become one of the foremost newspapers in America, and occupies the largest as well as the most completely and modernly equipped newspaper manufactory in the world. It now occupies a full city block. 300 by 280 feet, and has in addition, a 200 car garage in an adjoining block across the road. The institutional character of the newspaper is expressed in its architecture." Pub Curt Teich & Co., Inc., Chicago, U.S.A. Pub #890017, bottom right. (circa 1922)

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Oakland County Historical Resources and Birmingham Museum

Place:

Lafayette Blvd, Detroit, Michigan and Unspecified

Subject Topic:

Buildings

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Postcard

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