Standard Savings Building

1 Griswold (originally 409 Griswold) - Standard Savings Building - Steel-frame eight-and-a-half-story Neoclassical office building sheathed in limestone (1930). Corrado G. Parducci, sculptor. This structure fills the lot line at Griswold and Jefferson’s northwest corner. Originally built for the Standard Savings Bank, this building stands on a historic site documented by a historical marker as the site of Detroit’s founding and the location of the first Ste. Anne’s Church in 1701 — the city and Detroit’s oldest church both founded by French explorer Antoine Cadillac. The building’s windows are arranged in a grid pattern, five bays on the Griswold façade and twelve on the Jefferson façade. The original windows have been replaced with single pane aluminum windows. The first floor lobby is a story-and-a-half tall, creating a pedestal for the building. On each side of the recessed main entrance door on Griswold, a black granite fluted Doric column stands to designate the entrance. The door is protected by original decorative metal gates, and a matching metal grill covers the transom window above the door. A two-sided chrome corner clock was added to the building in the middle of the century. The roof is flat. On the roof of the building is signage for the previous tenant, the Raymond James brokerage.