Hammond Building
The Hammond Building was a high-rise building completed in 1889 at the southeast corner of Griswold Street and West Fort Street in the financial district of downtown Detroit, Michigan directly across Fort Street from the Detroit City Hall. The building was designed by George H. Edbrooke, and is considered the first skyscraper in the city, and was the tallest in the state when built. Russell Wheel & Foundry supplied and erected the iron and structural steel for the building. The Hammond Building was demolished in 1956 to make way for the National Bank of Detroit Building, which has since been renamed The Qube. At 12 stories, the steel-framed United Way Community Services Building (1895), originally the Chamber of Commerce Building, qualifies as Detroit's oldest existing skyscraper.
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high-rise
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Griswold Street
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West Fort Street
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financial district
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downtown
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Detroit
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Michigan
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Detroit City Hall
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skyscraper
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National Bank of Detroit Building
LOC
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The Qube
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United Way Community Services Building
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Hammond Building
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Hammond Building
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1889
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located in the administrative territorial entity
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located in the administrative territorial entity
located in the administrative territorial entity
located in the administrative territorial entity
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