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Fuller Claflin

Architect

Family Theatre, drawn from its recorded size and kind until a photo we may share turns up

Designer of the Family Theatre, the theater that stood in Detroit from 1880 until it came down in 1973. Grand Quarters, Detroit's Milwaukee Junction (1915), is the other Claflin work on record here.

Fuller Claflin's Metro Detroit, drawn to scale

Both of Claflin's works on record, oldest at left. None has a height on record, so each is drawn at one standard size in the shape of its kind.

Both of Claflin's works on record, oldest at left. None has a height on record, so each is drawn at one standard size in the shape of its kind.

Family Theatre

1880, Detroit, height not on record, drawn at one standard size

Demolished in 1973

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The story

The work that leads Claflin's record here is the Family Theatre, built in Detroit in 1880 and demolished in 1973.

The record opens in 1880 with the Family Theatre, as Detroit's lumber, stove and shipbuilding money went into brick and stone, and closes in 1915 with Grand Quarters. None of Claflin's work here survives. The Family Theatre came down in 1973. In Detroit, Claflin's work stands in Milwaukee Junction.

Fuller Claflin in Metro Detroit, oldest first

Where their buildings stand

2 works on the map

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  • Standing
  • Demolished
  • Altered
  • Works close together

2 works on the map

Where the work stands

Sources

The facts on Fuller Claflin come from Historic Detroit; Rebuild Detroit wrote the story above from them, and each photo names its license.