The Albert, formerly the Griswold Building, is a former office building named after architect Albert Kahn, located at 1214 Griswold Street in Downtown

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. It was listed on the

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in 1980 and is part of the Capitol Park Historic District. In 2014, it was renovated into apartments.

History

The Griswold Building was built in 1929 as an office building,Griswold Building
from Woodward Avenue. on the former site of the ''Miles Theatre'', and was later converted to residential use in the 1980s as senior apartment building. P. 76. The Albert was renovated as of fall 2014. The renovation converted the building's HUD Section-8 senior housing to 127 market-rate apartments, with 14,000 square feet of retail space on the building's first floor.

Description

The Albert stands 12 floors in height, with 127 units/rooms. The high-rise was designed by Albert Kahn in the

Art Moderne Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design ...

architectural style, and is significant as an example of the architect's transition from

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

to Art Moderne. The façade is divided into two sections: a lower, three-story portion faced with limestone and divided into nine bays, and an upper, nine-story portion constructed of brick with five center bays set back from the main façade.

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