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Penobscot Building, Detroit 1928.

When it opened, the tallest building in the world outside New York City — the tallest in Detroit until the Renaissance Center surpassed it in 1977.

Named for the Penobscot River in Maine, where Simon J. Murphy built the timber fortune that paid for the tower.

The red beacon at the crown has burned since 1928.

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275 Merton: Coronado Ap*rtments - (1948; Weidmaier and Gay, architect). This Moorish Revival and Art Deco building is four stories high and features orange yellow brick with chevron and lozenge patterns.