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The cornerstone was laid on May 11, 1908, by Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, and Andrew Carnegie [2] (who largely financed the building's construction), and the building was dedicated on April 26, 1910. [3] In 1919, the initial meeting of the International Labour Organization was held in the building. [4]
The mural was commissioned as part of the 2023 Street Art for Mankind project, plagued with problems at City Hall because the artists hired weren't local, resulting in protest across the Detroit ...
A person walks by a building in downtown Detroit displaying a giant mural of Detroit artist Bakpak Durden on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. The mural was created by an Australian artist named Smug.
New Deal art was installed in the Social Security building (now HHS), the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice building, the Department of Labor building (now Customs and Immigration), the Apex building (now Federal Trade Commission), the Government Printing Office Annex, the Home Owners Loan Corporation, the National Zoological Park, the District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds ...
The building changed ownership and names in 1945, when the tower was purchased by David Broderick, a Detroit insurance broker, which he then renamed after himself. After his purchase of the tower in 1945, David Broderick created the Sky Top Club on the 33rd floor of the tower, which was a private club used for entertaining Mr. Broderick's ...
When Wyland painted the mural in 1997, it was a gift to Detroit, but a broker wanted $585,000 from his nonprofit to not cover his art.
The building contains more Public Work Administration artwork than any other government building and includes the work of the second-highest number of PWA artists, more than any except the Franklin Street Post Office Station in Washington. [2] As in other aspects of the building design, Ickes was involved in every step of the artwork:
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