Edson, Moore and Company Building

The story

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The Edson, Moore and Company Building is a warehouse at 1702 W Fort St. in Detroit, built in 1913 in the Commercial Style with simplified Neoclassical ornamentation. Smith, Hinchman & Grylls was its architect, and Bryant & Detwiler Company built it.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in Commerce. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1913 to 1967, reflecting the building's construction that year.

Physical character

The trapezoidal building has a reinforced concrete frame with steel floor beams, and brick walls rising to a cast stone parapet and cornice. Its main entrance is a deeply recessed, double-height opening framed by a segmental keystone arch and cast stone quoined surrounds. Drive-in loading docks, a metal roll-down gate and freight elevators served its warehouse operations, and interior floors are flat slab reinforced concrete carried on mushroom-shaped columns.

Historical context

Edson, Moore & Company was founded in Detroit in 1872, occupied the Palms Building from 1882 until it burned in 1893, then built this warehouse in 1913. In 1915 its lower level became a waiting room and concessions for an interurban railway station. It served as a warehouse and place of business, and was vacant when listed.