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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.
- 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
- General Motors Building, Detroit, 1919-1923 (now Cadillac Place)
- 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 Detroit-Columbia Central Office Building, Detroit
- 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 and Western Electric Warehouse, Detroit, 1930
- Detroit Saturday Night Building, Detroit, 1929
- Union Industrial Bank Building/Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Building, Flint, 1930
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