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Join a free tour offered by Pure Detroit. The Fisher Building is Detroit's premier destination for office, retail, entertainment and events. Shop retailers, discover the building's history, and learn about office and retail space available for lease.
Pure Detroit Fisher Building Tours are currently running Saturdays at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm. Please see our Eventbrite page for more details.
Walk the arcade to see the works of mosaic art and more! Stop for coffee, drop into the Blackbird Gallery to enjoy the art, or shop in local boutiques, including Pure Detroit, The Peacock Room, and Yama. This building also houses the Fisher Theatre, where you can see a touring Broadway production.
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- 3011 W Grand Blvd, 48202-3096, Michigan
- A Beauty Is Born
- Rising Up Uptown
- Big and Beautiful
- Big Dreams, with Dreams For Something Bigger
- Going Up - Way Up
- Changing The Way People Parked
- Going to The Show
- The Fisher Brothers Let Her Go
- The Golden Tower 'Goes Green'
Like so much of Detroit’s history, the Fisher Building is tied to the automobile industry. The Fisher brothers -– Frederick J., Charles T., William A., Lawrence P., Edward F., Alfred J. and Howard A. -– made a fortune making auto bodies for Detroit’s booming car industry. From the days in their boyhood home in Norwalk, Ohio, the brothers learned fr...
At the time, real estate in downtown Detroit was expensive -- especially when you needed as much land for a building the size of the Fisher. And even if money were no object, just finding enough land for such a project was no easy feat. Because of this, a second downtown – New Center, as it would come to be known -- had started sprouting about 1915...
The late 1920s were a time of unprecedented growth in Detroit, especially when it came to skyscrapers. From the Penobscot Building to the Fox Theatre, 1928 saw landmark after landmark rise in the Motor City. "The gold-capped tower has taken its proper place in Detroit's ever-changing skyline," the Detroit News wrote of the Fisher in October 1928, w...
The L-shaped landmark was originally supposed to be a three-building complex and the largest commercial building in the world. There was to have been a taller, 60-story central tower flanked by the current 29-story Fisher Building on the right and an identical tower on the left. This is why the tower of the Fisher Building is aligned to the far rig...
The skyscraper owes as much to elevators as it does steel. After all, a luxury office 400 feet up wouldn't be such a luxury if you had to scale the stairs. And, like the rest of the building, the Fisher's elevator was also an innovation in its time as it was "automatically controlled in every way," the News marveled. At the time, most elevators in ...
Kahn not only helped revolutionize the way the world built its factories, he also changed the way it parked its cars. With the rise of the automobile -- and with land values still high in Detroit -- parking was at a premium in the Motor City. The Fisher was built with an 11-story parking garage in the rear with room for 1,100 automobiles. The garag...
The Fisher Building also houses a theater that offers off-Broadway productions. It opened to the public on Nov. 16, 1928, several weeks behind the rest of the building. In what was a rather new practice at the time, the theater was rather detached from the entrances to the building. This allowed for the Fisher Building's arcade to effectively serve...
On Dec. 7, 1962, it was announced that the Fisher and the 11-story New Center Building – now known as the Albert Kahn Building – were sold for about $15 million ($106.9 million today) by the four surviving Fisher brothers to a Detroit real estate partnership headed by prominent investors Louis Berry and George D. Seyburn. It was one of the biggest ...
On June 13, 2023, it was announced that Michigan State University's endowment had bought a majority interest in the Fisher Building, as well as the two surface parking lots adjacent to the landmark (representing a combined 3 acres of land), and the parking garage on Baltimore Street. Phillip Zecher, the chief investment officer for Michigan State w...
Pure Detroit is the Original Local Culture Shop offering free public and paid private tours of Detroit's Largest Art Object - the fabulous Fisher Building. Pure Detroit is using Eventbrite to organize 15 upcoming events.
Oct 27, 2018 · Take a step back in time to get an up close and personal look at the gorgeous Fisher Building. Pure Detroit offers free guided tours to of the iconic building from knowledgeable guides who share the Fisher family history, details on the construction project, Albert Kahns’s 1928 Art Deco design, and what was “suppose to be” for the Fisher ...
Feb 18, 2022 · The three tours include a Downtown Skyscraper tour, and two interior tours, of the Fisher Building and the Guardian Building, both locations of a Pure Detroit shop. Now, it both pains and embarrasses me to admit that I had never been inside either of those landmark buildings.
