Lafayette Pavilion Apartments

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Lafayette Pavilion Apartments is a high-rise residential apartment building in Detroit, Michigan. It is located at 1 Lafayette Plaisance, near Gratiot Avenue and I-375, near Chene Park.

Construction began in 1955 and was completed in 1958. The building, whose exterior was constructed primarily of aluminum and glass, is 22 floors in height, and was designed in the international architectural style.

The Lafayette Pavilion Apartments are one of four towers in the Lafayette Park development. The other three are the Windsor Tower, and the Lafayette Towers Apartments.

Along with the other neighboring Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed buildings, this building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

External links

[https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Detroit,+MI&ie=UTF8&ll=42.340212,-83.037023&spn=0.002248,0.006394&t=k&om=1 Google Maps location of the Lafayette Pavilion Apartments]
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Category:Apartment buildings in Detroit

Category:Ludwig Mies van der Rohe buildings

Category:Residential skyscrapers in Detroit

Category:Residential buildings completed in 1958

Category:1950s architecture in the United States

Category:International style architecture in Michigan

Category:Modernist architecture in Michigan