Lost school, Midtown, 1907
Lewis Cass Technical High School
Demolished
- Opened
- 1907
Designed by Malcomson & Higginbotham
Lewis Cass Technical High School stood in Midtown from 1907. Here is what it was, who made it and where to find the spot today.
Then and now
What stands there now
2011
Today
A surface parking lot
Map data: OpenStreetMap contributors
A surface parking lot
- 1907 Opens Lewis Cass Technical High School
- 2026 Today Surface parking lot
How we know what stands there
- OpenStreetMap surface parking lot at the map point
Checked October 25, 2026. We never guess: a site no source speaks for shows no answer.
More photos of Lewis Cass Technical High School
What is there now
A surface parking lot
- Today Source: OpenStreetMap
We checked Wikidata, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Rebuild Detroit's landmark records and the county parcel records on October 25, 2026.
The story
Lewis Cass Technical High School went up in 1907, in the years Detroit became the Motor City and built like it meant to stay on top.
Credit the design to Malcomson & Higginbotham.
The National Register of Historic Places listed it in 2011.
It is gone now, and the map pin below marks where it stood.
Lewis Cass Technical High School (simply referred to as Cass Tech) is a four-year public magnet high school in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. It was established in 1907 and is part of the Detroit Public Schools Community District. It is named after army officer, politician, and slavery advocate Lewis Cass.
Timeline
- 1907 Built Designed by Malcomson & Higginbotham
- 2011 Listed on the National Register March 29, 2011
Where it is
2421 Second Avenue
On this map
- 1 Lewis Cass Technical High School This place
- 2 Cass Tech High School (old) 50 ft
- 3 Nuppenau House 0.1 mi
- 4 Second Avenue Presbyterian Church 0.1 mi
- 5 Michigan Chronicle Building 0.2 mi
- 6 Kresge Administration Building 0.2 mi
- 7 Kresge, S. S., World Headquarters 0.2 mi
- 8 Film Exchange Building 0.2 mi
- 9 Loyal Order of Moose Lodge 0.2 mi
Street map from OpenStreetMap contributors
What stood here before
Who made it
Architect
Malcomson & HigginbothamAmerican architectural firm based in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Designed St. Joseph's Episcopal Church (1883) and 51 more in Metro Detroit
Also by Malcomson & Higginbotham
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Around the block
It is in Midtown. See the neighborhood's homes, pros and story.
- Cass Tech High School (old) School, built 1922, Collegiate Gothic, by William E. Higginbotham, demolished 2011 50 ft
- Nuppenau House Historic home, Stick 0.1 mi
- Second Avenue Presbyterian Church House of worship, built 1888, by Julius Hess 0.1 mi
- Michigan Chronicle Building Building, built 1936, Art Moderne 0.2 mi
- Kresge Administration Building Building, built 1930, Art Deco, by Albert Kahn 0.2 mi
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Kresge, S. S., World Headquarters
Building, Art Deco, by Albert Kahn
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
0.2 mi
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Film Exchange Building
Building, built 1926, Art Moderne, by C. Howard Crane
Photo: ACGray, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
0.2 mi
- Loyal Order of Moose Lodge Building, built 1922, by Baxter, O'Dell & Halpin 0.2 mi
Photo credits
Every photo on this page is used under its license, named here with its author and a link to the original.
- en:Cass Technical High School, view from Third Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 2010 Photo: Albert duce, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- The old Cass Technical High School in Detroit, Michigan Photo: Cacophony, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cthelmet212, 2011 Photo: Casstechfootball, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sources
Facts only, gathered from these sources. The story above is written by Rebuild Detroit. Every photo names its author and license where it appears.