The Kean Building

The The Kean Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Charles Noble and built between 1930 and 1931 in Detroit, MI.

The Kean Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. The building is, or has also been known as Kean Apartments.

Its precise street address is 8925 East Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, MI. You can also find it on the map here.

The The Kean Building is a structure of significant importance both for the city of Detroit and the United States as a nation. The building embodies the distinctive characteristic features of the time in which it was built and the Art Deco style. Because of that, the The Kean Building was officially included in the National Register of Historic Places on July 9^th 1985.

Charles Noble was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

The The Kean Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The The Kean Building was completed in 1931, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features orange terracotta at the entrance, with a semicircular arch supported by marble Corinthian columns and medallions embedded into the walls. A tiled hipped roof over a red and white checkerboard border with grouped gargoyles tops the building.

Other materials found at the The Kean Building include, wood, cladding the lobby's walls and window frames, marble, seen on the stairsteps and floors, with a special pominence in the rosettes at the lobby's ceiling, and stained glass, used for the first floor windows.