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.

Lafayette Boulevard
Length10.76 mi (17.32 km)[1]
South endBrest Street in Lincoln Park-Southgate
Major
junctions
East endIroquois 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

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  1. ^ Google Earth ruler path measurements
  2. ^ City of Detroit Historic Designation Advisory Board. "Hotel Yorba". Historic Detroit. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
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