Fisher Building
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The Fisher Building is a landmark office tower located at 3011 West Grand Boulevard in the heart of the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan. The ornate 30-story building, completed in 1928, is one of
Fisher Building in December 2021
A 1930s postcard depicting the Fisher Building
Looking east
Arcade ceiling
Mayan Revival architecture
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Mayan Revival is a modern architectural style popular in the Americas during the 1920s and 1930s that drew inspiration from the architecture and iconography of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.
Fisher Building
…designed by the Chicago-based architectural firm of Anker S. Graven & Arthur G. Mayger, originally featured a lavish Aztec-themed interior in the Mayan Revival style, a Wurlitzer 4-manual/34-rank organ, and once had Mexican-Indian art, banana trees, and live macaws that its patrons could feed. After the Depression…
Mayan Theater, Los Angeles
Detail of the intricate pattern work characteristic of classic Maya art, 450 Sutter Street.
Kukulkanob public pavilion in Mérida.
An example of Mayan decorative paneling, 450 Sutter Street.