Lafayette Pavilion Apartment is the smaller building in the background.
Lafayette Pavilion Apartments is a high-rise residential apartment building in Detroit , Michigan . It is located at 1 Lafayette Plaisance, near Gratiot Avenue and I-375 , near Chene Park .
Construction began in 1955 and was completed in 1958. The building, whose exterior was constructed primarily of aluminum and glass , is 22 floors in height, and was designed in the international architectural style .
The Lafayette Pavilion Apartments are one of four towers in the Lafayette Park development . The other three are the Windsor Tower , and the Lafayette Towers Apartments .
Along with the other neighboring Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -designed buildings, this building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
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