LAFAYETTE PARK, DETROIT

The 'Lafayette Park' development is a large park and complex of apartments and housing cooperatives just east of downtown Detroit, Michigan. The area is part of the Mies van der Rohe Residential District listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The 78-acre urban renewal project was originally called the Gratiot Park Development. Planned by Mies van der Rohe and Ludwig Hilberseimer it includes a landscaped, 19-acre park with no through traffic, in which these and other low-rise apartment buildings are sited.
The apartment buildings of Lafayette Park are classic examples of Mies' International Style, with their simplicity, clean proportions, and cladding of tinted glass and aluminum.
The park and development are located roughly half-way between downtown and Chene Park, and are also close to Belle Isle and the MacArthur Bridge. There is also easy access to I-375, Gratiot Avenue, and Jefferson Avenue.

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Constituent buildings

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Constituent buildings

Building Name	Floors	Year Completed
1300 Lafayette East Cooperative	29	1961
Lafayette Pavillion Apartments	22	1958
Lafayette Towers Apartments East	22	1963
Lafayette Towers Apartments West	22	1963
The Windsor Tower	21	1965

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See also

★ Architecture of metropolitan Detroit

★ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

★ Neighborhoods and projects in Detroit, Michigan

External links

★ Google Maps location of the Lafayette Park

★ Photographs of Lafayette Park