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Wirt C. Rowland [Wikipedia ] [A Short Biography by Dale Carlson ] was an architect who designed many buildings in Detroit during the early 20th century. The Guardian Building sparked my interest in this architect, and I've photographed that and many of his other buildings since 2015.
Thirkell Elementary School , Detroit, 1914?
T. B. Rayl Company Building , Detroit, 1915
Hill Auditorium , Ann Arbor, 1913
Northern High School , Detroit, 1915
Southeastern High School , Detroit, 1915
Detroit Savings Bank, Branch #3 , at Woodward & Milwaukee, Detroit, 1915
Hatcher Library, Ann Arbor, 1915-1920
Detroit News Building , Detroit, 1916
Harms Elementary School , Detroit, 1917
Cadillac Place , Detroit, 1919-1923 (originally the General Motors Building)
First National Building , Detroit, 1922
Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church , Detroit, 1926
Bankers Trust Company Building , Detroit, 1925
Buhl Building , Detroit, 1925
Michigan Bell Ann Arbor Central Office , Ann Arbor, 1925
Michigan Bell Royal Oak Central Office , Royal Oak, 1925
Michigan Bell Redford Central Office , Detroit, 1925
Michigan Bell Hogarth Central Office , Detroit, 1925
Michigan Bell Detroit-Columbia Central Office Building , Detroit
Town Residences , Detroit, 1926-1930 (originally, the Pontchartrain Club)
Michigan Bell Headquarters Addition, Detroit, 1927
Greater Penobscot Building , Detroit, 1928
Guardian Building , Detroit, 1929 (originally Union Trust Building)
Michigan Bell Madison Central Office , Detroit, 1929
Michigan Bell Pingree Central Office , Detroit, 1929
Michigan Bell Niagara Central Office , Detroit, 1929
Cunningham Drug Building , Detroit, 1929
Michigan Bell Vinewood Central Office , Detroit, 1929
Michigan Bell and Western Electric Warehouse , Detroit, 1930
Detroit Saturday Night Building , Detroit, 1929
Pershing High School , Detroit, 1929
Union Industrial Bank Building/Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Building, Flint, 1930
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