Building, Detroit
Detroit Cornice and Slate Company Building
No demolition on record
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
The Detroit Cornice and Slate Company Building has stood on Saint Antoine Street in Detroit. Who built it, what makes it special and how to see it for yourself.
What is there now
Standing
We checked building permits, sales, listings and the city's blight and demolition files on October 25, 2026. Nothing new at this address in the last two years.
The story
The Detroit Cornice and Slate Company Building is one of the places that gives Detroit its character.
It was built in the Beaux-Arts style, and it still reads that way from the sidewalk.
The National Register of Historic Places listed it in 1974.
Next time you are nearby, stop at 733 Saint Antoine Street and look up.
The Detroit Cornice and Slate Company Building is a Beaux-Arts style industrial office building located at 733 St. Antoine Street (at East Lafayette Street) in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974.
Where it is
733 Saint Antoine Street
On this map
- 1 Detroit Cornice and Slate Company Building This place
- 2 Hollywood Casino at Greektown 190 ft
- 3 Greektown Historic District 470 ft
- 4 St. Mary's Catholic Church 500 ft
- 5 Detroit Cornice & Slate Co. Building 0.1 mi
- 6 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral 0.1 mi
- 7 Wayne County Morgue 0.1 mi
- 8 Second Baptist Church 0.1 mi
- 9 Globe Tobacco Building 0.1 mi
Street map from OpenStreetMap contributors
Around the block
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Hollywood Casino at Greektown
Skyscraper, built 2000, by Paul Steelman
Photo: Mikerussell at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
190 ft
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Greektown Historic District
Historic district
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
470 ft
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St. Mary's Catholic Church
House of worship, built 1885, by Peter Dederichs
Photo: I, Mikerussell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
500 ft
- Detroit Cornice & Slate Co. Building Building, built 1897, Beaux Arts, by Harry J. Rill 0.1 mi
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral House of worship, built 1968, by John W. Loizon 0.1 mi
- Wayne County Morgue Building, built 1925, Egyptian Revival, by Aaron H. Gould & Son, demolished 1995 0.1 mi
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Second Baptist Church
House of worship, built 1852, Tudor Revival, by William E.N. Hunter
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
0.1 mi
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Globe Tobacco Building
Building, built 1889, Richardsonian Romanesque, by William Scott & Co.
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
0.1 mi
Photo credits
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- Detroit Cornice and Slate Company Building at St. Antoine St. and E. Lafayette St Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sources
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