Detroit Architect

Louis Kamper1861–1953

Louis Kamper trained in McKim, Mead & White's New York office before settling in Detroit in 1888. He designed the Book Tower, the Book-Cadillac Hotel, and most of the Washington Boulevard skyline at the request of the Book brothers. His mansions on East Jefferson and in Grosse Pointe defined the elegant manner of the early twentieth-century Detroit elite.

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