Lafayette Boulevard (also referred to as Lafayette Street and Lafayette Avenue) is a major east-west street through the city of Detroit, extending from the southeast side through downtown into the southwest side, ending at Woodmere Cemetery. Lafayette Boulevard, like certain other east-west streets that had ended in southwest Detroit east of Woodmere Cemetery, reappears in the suburb of Lincoln Park, Michigan. The stretch through downtown Detroit is lined with structures including the Detroit Free Press Building and Greektown Casino Hotel.
| Length | 10.76 mi (17.32 km)[1] |
|---|---|
| South end | Brest Street in Lincoln Park-Southgate |
| Major junctions | |
| East end | Iroquois Street in Detroit |
This list below shows the information on the buildings located along Lafayette Boulevard in the city of Detroit.
| Address | Building Name | Building use | Year Built | Architectural Style | Floors | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South side of street | North side of street | ||||||||
| Outer Drive | |||||||||
| Woodmere Street | |||||||||
| Springwells Street | |||||||||
| Central Street | |||||||||
| Green Street | |||||||||
| Waterman Street | |||||||||
| Livernois Avenue | |||||||||
| Dragoon Street | |||||||||
| Junction Street | |||||||||
| Clark Street | |||||||||
| Fairbanks Street | |||||||||
| 4020 West Lafayette Boulevard | Hotel Yorba | hotel | 1923[2] | 4 | |||||
| Hubbard Street | |||||||||
| West Grand Boulevard | |||||||||
| Fisher Freeway (Interstate 75) | |||||||||
| Ambassador Bridge | |||||||||
| Rosa Parks Boulevard | |||||||||
| Trumbull Street | |||||||||
| Lodge Freeway (M-10) | |||||||||
| 3rd Street | |||||||||
| 615 West Lafayette Boulevard | Detroit News Building | office building | 1917 | Romanesque | 3 | Houses the main offices of The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press | |||
| 2nd Street | |||||||||
| 550 West Lafayette Boulevard | WDIV Studios | television studio | 1 | Houses the main studios of WDIV-TV. | |||||
| 525 West Lafayette Boulevard | Fort Shelby Hotel | hotel | 1916 | Classical Revival, Georgian Eclectic, Beaux-Arts | 23 | Expanded 1927, reopened 2008 as the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel Detroit Downtown - Fort Shelby | |||
| 1st Street | |||||||||
| 411 West Lafayette Boulevard | 411 Building | office building | Houses Comerica Bank's Detroit offices. | ||||||
| Cass Avenue | |||||||||
| 321 West Lafayette Boulevard | Detroit Free Press Building | office building | 1925 | Art Deco | 16 | former Detroit Free Press headquarters | |||
| Washington Boulevard | |||||||||
| 231 West Lafayette Boulevard | Theodore Levin United States Courthouse | courthouse | 1934 | 10 | |||||
| Shelby Street | |||||||||
| 144 West Lafayette Boulevard | Lafayette Building | office building | 1923 | neo-classical architecture | 14 | demolished 2010 | |||
| 751 Griswold Street | The Olde Building | lofts, restaurant | 1927 | neo-classical architecture | 4 | designed by Albert Kahn and Corrado Parducci | |||
| Griswold Street | |||||||||
| Michigan Avenue | |||||||||
| Randolph Street | |||||||||
| Brush Street | |||||||||
| 1000 Brush Street | Atheneum Suite Hotel Detroit | hotel | 8 | ||||||
| Beaubien Street | |||||||||
| 555 East Lafayette Boulevard | Greektown Casino Hotel | casino, hotel | 2000 | 30 | expanded 2008 | ||||
| Saint Antoine Street | |||||||||
| Chrysler Freeway (Interstate 375) | |||||||||
| Rivard Street | |||||||||
| 1300 East Lafayette Boulevard | 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative | housing cooperative | 1961 | 29 | |||||
| Orleans Street | |||||||||
| Dequindre Cut Greenway | |||||||||
| Saint Aubin Street | |||||||||
| Mount Elliott Street | |||||||||
| East Grand Boulevard | |||||||||
| Van Dyke Street | |||||||||
| Iroquois Street | |||||||||
References
edit- ^ Google Earth ruler path measurements
- ^ City of Detroit Historic Designation Advisory Board. "Hotel Yorba". Historic Detroit. Retrieved September 25, 2014.