Lee Plaza Apartments 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.
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About this print
From the photographer
Did you know Detroit's "last vacant high-rise" is being restored? The Lee Plaza was a symbol of Detroit's "Roaring '20s." Its ballroom piano was one of the most famous scenes of abandoned Detroit. When it opened in 1927, its builder, Ralph T. Lee, called it "the finest thing of its kind in America." It had hand-painted ceilings by Corrado Parducci. Its builder went bankrupt in the Great Depression. The Lee Plaza was subjected to organized looting. More than 50 lion heads were stripped from the facade. Six turned up on luxury condos in Chicago. No one was ever convicted. The scrappers even stripped the copper roof. Now a $60 million restoration is underway — and the stolen lions are being re-created.
The Lee Plaza Apartments, 1929, Charles Noble, 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.
From the National Register nomination
The Lee Plaza Hotel is located on the southeast corner of West Grand Boulevard and Lawton Avenue about three miles northwest of the central business district of Detroit in what is known as the New center Area. A modest residential neighborhood of early twentieth century single-family and two-family houses extends to the rear of the hotel, although Grand Boulevard itself is dotted with major 1920s era institutional and office buildings interspersed among substantial houses, apartment buildings and churches. …
Verbatim excerpt from the National Register of Historic Places nomination · Reference 81000319.