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The Wardell Print — Detroit Architecture Photograph

Museum-quality photograph by Andrew Petrov

The Wardell (Park Shelton) — Louis Kamper, 1925
The Wardell
1925 · Louis Kamper
No. __ / 100

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

$50

Hand-Signed · Open Edition

The photograph printed clean and hand-signed — the building at wall scale for an office, a study, or a hallway.

Free U.S. shipping · Ships same-day on most orders · 30-day reprint-or-refund

13 × 19″

Museum-quality print

$150

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.

Free U.S. shipping · Ships same-day on most orders · 30-day reprint-or-refund

24 × 36″ Canvas

Gallery-wrap canvas

$400

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 The Wardell, 1925, Louis Kamper, is one of Detroit's 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

The Wardell (now the Park Shelton) is a twelve-story, reinforced concrete, E-shaped apartment building with Italian Renaissance details. The front of the building, with the main entrance facing south on East Kirby Avenue, has three massive wings with two open courts. The wings are connected at the ground floor with a one-story lobby space. The entrance door is in the middle wing in the center of the building. The west facade borders Woodward Avenue. …

Verbatim excerpt from the National Register of Historic Places nomination · Reference 07000744.

Read the full history of the The Wardell