August 21 - Some great Art Deco Buildings

 The Fisher Building was located quite near our hotel so we walked to it.

This building at one time housed the company that made bodies for automobiles (Fisher Body).

It was given outside cladding (image 1) with various types of marble, granite and other decorative stone. 

The interior contains a beautifully decorated vaulted ceiling with extensive designs. The top of the vault is over the third floor (the image shows the 3rd floor walkway).

The Fisher building is in Mid town Detroit, about three miles from the downtown area.

 The Guardian building which is in downtown Detroit is the other great Art Deco building (red one in the 3rd image) in the city. The Guardian has had financial institutions occupy its floors.

Its lobby also has an extensively decorated vaulted ceiling. 

In the fourth image, the ceiling ends with a map of Michigan. On it (not easily seen) are symbols of commerce, manufacturing, mining, etc.

The fifth image is the other end of the lobby of the Guardian building. It looks like some sort of religious shrine - I presume that was the 'inspiration' for the design. The design has led people to refer to the lobby and sometimes to the building itself as a "Temple of Finance". 

We visited both these places, the Fisher and the Guardian on August 21, but the images are from the internet as my camera doesn't do well with deep interiors like this. Actually no camera, whose product I've ever seen, really does justice to this kind of art.