For the downtown Detroit, Michigan office tower known as "Cadillac Tower", see Cadillac Tower.

"General Motors Building" redirects here, for the office tower in New York City with that name, see General Motors Building (New York).

Cadillac Place is an ornate high-rise office building in the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan constructed of limestone, granite, and marble. Originally the General Motors Building, it had housed the company's world headquarters from 1923 until 1996. In 1996, GM moved its world headquarters to the Renaissance Center and sold the magnificent building which is leased by the State of Michigan on a long term basis. The building was renamed Cadillac Place. The building takes its present name from Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, the founder of Detroit. This National Historic Landmark is one of the nation's largest historic renovation projects.

Architecture

Cadillac Place rises 15 stories with the roof height at 220 ft (67.1 m), and the top floor at 187 ft (57 m). The building has 31 elevators. Originally constructed with , and was expanded to . Designated a National Historic Landmark on June 2, 1978 it is an exquisite example of Neo-Classical architecture.

Designed by noted architect Albert Kahn, each of the four parallel 15-story wings connects to a central perpendicular backbone. Kahn used this design to allow sunlight and natural ventilation to reach each of the building's hundreds of individual offices. The stately structure is crowned with Corinthian colonnades. In 1923, it opened as the second largest office building in the world (behind the Equitable Building in New York City).^[1]

In 2002, the building was thoroughly renovated for the State of Michigan and renamed it Cadillac Place. Architect Eric J. Hill participated in the 2002 redevelopment. Cadillac Place currently houses over 2,000 state employees including the Michigan Court of Appeals for District I. The building's executive office serves as the Detroit office for Michigan's governor. It houses State offices for the Detroit area and a State Court of Appeals. Directly across from the Fisher Building to which it is connected by an underground pedestrian tunnel. Cadillac Place constitutes a formidable complex. The Detroit St. Regis Hotel adjoins the Fisher Building across from Cadillac Place.

Photo gallery

<gallery> Image:CadillacPlaceinsideentryfoyer.jpg?|Main entrance from West Grand Blvd. Image:CadillacPlaceShoppingconcourse.jpg?|Interior shopping concourse Image:CadillacPlaceNewCenterDetroit5.jpg?| Image:CadillacPlaceNewCenterdetroit4.jpg?| Image:CadillacPlacefromCassMilwaukeestreets.jpg|Rear annex addition from Cass and Milwaukee Street Image:CadillacPlacefromGrand.jpg|View from Grand Blvd and Woodward Ave. Image:CadillacPlaceNewCenterdetroit2.jpg?| Image:CadillacPlaceNewCenterdetroit1.jpg?| Image:CadillacPlaceFisherbldg.jpg|Cadillac Place (left) and the Fisher Building Image:Tastefest Detroit 2006.jpg|CityFest in New Center Image:Fisher Building, Detroit.jpg|The Fisher Building along with Cadillac Place are National Historic Landmarks in the City's New Center area. Image:General_Motors_building_089833pv.jpg|Cadillac Place, formerly the General Motors Building </gallery>

See also

• Fisher Building
• Henry Ford Hospital
• New Center, Detroit
• Penobscot Building
• Wayne State University

Notes

References

External links

• http://www.buildingphotos.com/detroit/DE-3044wgrand.shtml
• Cadillac Place at Emporis.com
• New Center Council
• SkyscraperPage.com's Profile on Cadillac Place

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