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Frederick Douglass Apartments - Tower 301

Chrysler Drive at Alfred Street, SW corner
Detroit MI United States

Status:
destroyed
Construction Dates
  Began1952
  Finished1952
  Destroyed2014
Floor Count14
Basement Floors1
Building Uses
 - residential
Structural Types
 - highrise

 Heights ValueSource / Comments 
Chimney chute152 ftHarley Ellis Devereaux, March 29, 2007
to masonry chimney chute
Spire150 ftHarley Ellis Devereaux, March 29, 2007
to masonry chimney
Roof146 ftHarley Ellis Devereaux, March 29, 2007
to machine room penthouse roof
Main roof128 ftHarley Ellis Devereaux, March 29, 2007
to main roof deck
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Description
Architect: Harley, Ellington, & Day

Developer: Detroit Housing Commission

This tower was one of six public housing project towers in the Frederick Douglass Project.


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