211 West Fort Street Building

211 West Fort – Detroit Bank & Trust Tower – Noncontributing (only because less than fifty years old) – Steel frame twenty-eight story skyscraper (1963-64). Harley, Ellington, Cowin & Stirton, Inc., architects. This very large building fills the rectangular west half of a block bounded by Fort on the north, Washington on the west, and Congress on the south. A box in form, it is faced with precast concrete frames outlining floor-to-ceiling plate glass windows that give a grid pattern to the building facades. The ground floor is set back beneath an arcade at ground level and the top of the building displays a two-story tall mechanical housing that fills out the box form. The building has a flat roof. The building is set back from West Fort Street to provide space for raised planting beds. The building connects to the historic Detroit Trust Company building at 201 West Fort Street. Detroit Bank & Trust occupied the lower floors of this building as its headquarters from 1964 until the early 1990s. Griswold Street