Bankers Trust Company Building

Steel-frame two-story bank building faced in terra cotta (1925). Wirt Rowland, chief designer, Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, architects. A small building with facades on both Congress and Shelby and an angled entry facing the intersection, Bankers Trust displays a highly elaborate Italian Romanesque decorative scheme fashioned of buff-color terra cotta above a low buff granite base. The building is finished with massive arches containing windows in both facades. Flanking the arched corner entrance are dark green marble columns supporting lions holding shields. The building has a flat roof. The original bronze window frames remain in place. In two of the original windows, original green marble panels are still in place in the center of the windows. The low second story is finished with an arcaded treatment that uses columns in a variety of designs. The columns, their capitals, the wall surfaces and cornice above and the wall behind the arcade are resplendent in detailing that leaves no surface there uncovered. The upper story windows that occupy the central pair of arches aligned over the arches below contain three-over-three original metal windows. The arches above the windows are also blind, filled with elaborate carving. The corner doorway once featured a revolving door, now removed, but the elaborate bronze outer door remains. The interior has been rebuilt various times as uses changed from the bank to a brokerage, and then a McDonalds during the early 1990s. It is currently used as a nightclub. The current owner recently added bronze lettering over the doorway, "Bankers Trust Company," as a tribute to the historic past of the building.

220 West Congress - Noncontributing in its present exterior finish - Steel-frame five-story brick office building. Rectangular in plan, this former glove factory was completely refaced and renovated in the 1970s and no historic finishes are evident. Blue and cream-colored metal panels cover the street facade, with dark plate glass windows aligned between the panels and a recessed entrance.

243 West Congress - Marquette Building - Steel-frame ten-story brick and terra cotta commercial office building. (1906, 1916). It fronts 150 feet on Congress Street and 120 feet on Washington Blvd. Large windows on all four sides of the building allowed light and air for work purposes. The building is faced with red brick, and even retains its original first floor brickwork. A bulkhead of cast stone runs around the base of the building, and at the end of piers it is formed into column bases and plinths. A running band of beige terra cotta divides the second and third floors as well as the third and fourth floors. It is apparent that a running band or cornice was removed from between the eighth and ninth floors. The tenth-floor windows have round-heads and terra-cotta keystones. The windows are all two-over-two aluminum replacement windows. All the windows have a sill of white terra cotta. The cornice is a simple band of terra cotta. The roof is flat. Above the entrance

The Bankers Trust Company Building is an office building located at 205 West Congress Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Financial District. Designed by Wirt C. Rowland of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls and completed in 1925 the ornately modeled building is an exquisite example of Italian Romanesque Revival architecture.The Bankers Trust Company was founded in 1917 and its offices were originally located in the State Savings Bank Building, at the northeast corner of West Congress and Shelby Streets. The bank later hired the architectural firm of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls to design a new headquarters building down the street; the structure, designed by Wirt C. Rowland, was completed in 1925. The Bankers Trust Company occupied the building from 1925 to 1948, when a brokerage firm moved in. The structure later housed a fast food restaurant, a diner, and several nightclubs, before being sold in 2015 to an unidentified buyer for $3 million.The two-story building is faced with terra cotta and includes elaborate exterior Italian Romanesque–style decorations, with massive arched windows designed to admit light to the banking room. The large first-floor arches are echoed on the second floor. Green marble columns topped with lions flank the corner entrance, which once had a revolving door (now removed). The interior has been remodeled multiple times as the structure served different uses; the three-story addition on Shelby Street, designed in the International Style, was completed in 1960.• Meyer, Katherine Mattingly & Martin C.P. McElroy (1980). Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide. Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A. (Revised ed.). Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1651-4.• Savage, Rebecca Binno & Greg Kowalski (2004). Art Deco in Detroit (Images of America). Arcadia. ISBN 0-7385-3228-2.• Sobocinski, Melanie Grunow (2005). Detroit and Rome: building on the past. Regents of the University of Michigan. ISBN 0933691092.• Historic Detroit — Bankers Trust Company BuildingLow rise under 10 stories selectedParks and gardens • Belle Isle• Cranbrook• Campus Martius• Grand Circus• Metroparks• Matthaei Botanical Gardens• Riverfront parks• Detroit ZooMuseums and libraries • Cranbrook Educational Community• Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History• Detroit Historical Museum• Detroit Institute of Arts• Detroit Public Library• Detroit Science Center• Edsel and Eleanor Ford House• Fair Lane• Ford Piquette Avenue Plant• The Henry Ford• Meadowbrook Hall• Pewabic Pottery• Southfield Public Library• University of Michigan Museum of ArtReligious landmarks • Religious landmarksPerformance centers • Theatres and performing arts venuesNeighborhood Historic DistrictsSee also: List of tallest buildings in DetroitLargest municipalities • Ann Arbor• Battle Creek• Bloomfield Township• Canton• Chesterfield Township• Clinton Township• Commerce Township• Dearborn• Dearborn Heights• Detroit• East Lansing• Farmington Hills• Flint• Georgetown Township• Grand Blanc Township• Grand Rapids• Holland Township• Independence Township• Kalamazoo• Kentwood• Lansing• Lincoln Park• Livonia• Macomb Township• Meridian Township• Midland• Muskegon• Novi• Orion Township• Pittsfield Township• Pontiac• Portage• Redford• Rochester Hills• Roseville• Royal Oak• Saginaw• Saginaw Township• St. Clair Shores• Shelby Township• Southfield• Sterling Heights• Taylor• Troy• Warren• Waterford Township• West Bloomfield• Westland• Wyoming• Ypsilanti TownshipCounties • Alcona• Alger• Allegan• Alpena• Antrim• Arenac• Baraga• Barry• Bay• Benzie• Berrien• Branch• Calhoun• Cass• Charlevoix• Cheboygan• Chippewa• Clare• Clinton• Crawford• Delta• Dickinson• Eaton• Emmet• Genesee• Gladwin• Gogebic• Grand Traverse• Gratiot• Hillsdale• Houghton• Huron• Ingham• Ionia• Iosco• Iron• Isabella• Jackson• Kalamazoo• Kalkaska• Kent• Keweenaw• Lake• Lapeer• Leelanau• Lenawee• Livingston• Luce• Mackinac• Macomb• Manistee• Marquette• Mason• Mecosta• Menominee• Midland• Missaukee• Monroe• Montcalm• Montmorency• Muskegon• Newaygo• Oakland• Oceana• Ogemaw• Ontonagon• Osceola• Oscoda• Otsego• Ottawa• Presque Isle• Roscommon• Saginaw• Sanilac• Schoolcraft• Shiawassee• St. Clair• St. Joseph• Tuscola• Van Buren• Washtenaw• Wayne• WexfordMichigan portal

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