B and C Grocery Building

Constructed in 1939-40 to house one of the stores of the local B & C Grocery chain, founded in the early 1920s by Max Bachman and Peter Chodoroff, the B & C Grocery Building is significant in architectural terms for its newly restored Art Deco/Moderne facade, a fine example of the porcelain enameled metal panel architecture of the 1930s-early 1950s in Royal Oak and the metropolitan Detroit region.

The B & C Grocery Building is a one-story arch-roof red brick commercial building with an eye-catching, broad and low Art Deco front faced in Macotta porcelain enamel metal panels backed in concrete. Low stepped 'gables' rise above double-door entries near the center of each half of the facade, and the shiny metal doors and windows together form a band extending entirely across the facade. The primary color of the enameled metal panel storefront piers and upper facade is pale yellow, but vertical and horizontal striping and portal zones above the entrances and extending into the stepped gables are accented in salmon and deep burgundy hues and the storefront window bulkheads are also deep burgundy in color. The building stands at the intersection of two streets and displays an angled corner containing a third, recessed entrance. Originally housing the B & C Grocery and a small leased store space at the corner by the intersection, the building now contains a restaurant, wine bar and shop, coffee house, and club in the main and basement levels.