Guardian Building Print — Detroit Architecture Photograph
Museum-quality photograph by Andrew Petrov
Preview of the printed annotation band. On the numbered edition the edition number is printed in place of “No. __ / 100.”
11 × 17″
Museum-quality print
Hand-Signed · Open Edition
The photograph printed clean and hand-signed — the building at wall scale for an office, a study, or a hallway.
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13 × 19″
Museum-quality print
Hand-Signed & Numbered · Edition of 100
Hand-signed by Andrew Petrov and numbered — one of one hundred — on the printed annotation band naming the building, its year, architect, and style.
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24 × 36″ Canvas
Gallery-wrap canvas
Open Edition · Printed on Demand
The photograph at statement scale on gallery-wrapped canvas, ready to hang — printed on demand and shipped direct to your door in about a week.
Free U.S. shipping · Ships same-day on most orders · 30-day reprint-or-refund
Free U.S. shipping on everything. Paper prints ship same-day on most orders, flat-safe in a rigid tube from the studio in Detroit; canvas ships direct from our print lab in about a week. Checkout is handled by Stripe.
30-day guarantee. If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your call.
About this print
The Guardian Building, 1929, Wirt C. Rowland (Smith, is one of Detroit's Art Deco landmarks. This print comes from Andrew Petrov's own photograph of the building, made for the Detroit Photography architecture archive.
Each print is produced to museum standard on archival paper and shipped flat-safe in a rigid tube. The 13 × 19 numbered edition adds a printed annotation band — the building, its year, architect, and style — with its edition number on the band, one of one hundred.
From the National Register nomination
500 Griswold - Union Trust (Guardian) Building - Steel-frame forty-story skyscraper faced in brick, terra cotta and granite (1927-29) — Wirt C. Rowland of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, architects. Corrado G. Parducci, sculptor. National Historic Landmark. Later named the Guardian Building, this skyscraper is finished in an exotic blend of Art Deco, Mayan and Native American motifs. The footprint of the building fills the lot line for a narrow half-length of a north-south city block. …
Verbatim excerpt from the National Register of Historic Places nomination · Reference 89001165.