The Fyfe Building is located at 10 West Adams Street, at the corner of Adams Street and

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. It faces onto Central United Methodist Church, and

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The high-rise building was constructed between 1916 and 1919, and is one of Detroit's oldest; it was designed by

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in the Gothic Revival architectural style. P. 64. P. 31. It stands at 14 floors, and has 65 residential units. The building was named after Richard H. Fyfe, a Detroit merchant who made his fortune in the shoe trade. For many years it had a Fyfe shoe store at the retail street level and offices in the upper stories; at the time of its opening, the shoe store was the largest in the country. The building is now mainly used as a residential building, but has some

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and a bar at street level. The building was nearly demolished in the mid-1990s to make way for parking for

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. * Owner:

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