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Lost building, Detroit, 1879 to 1928

Newberry & McMillan Building

Demolished in 1928

A drawing of Newberry & McMillan Building from its recorded size and style. No photo we may share has turned up yet.
Opened
1879
Style
Second Empire
Torn down
1928

Designed by Gordon W. Lloyd

The Newberry & McMillan Building stood in Detroit from 1879 until 1928. Here is what it was, who made it and where to find the spot today.

On the map

Then and now

What stands there now

Today

One Woodward Avenue from Windsor, Ontario, 2025-07-30 Photo: Chris Woodrich, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

One Woodward Avenue

Built 1962, 28 stories, Commercial building

Detroit's Newberry & McMillan Building, designed by Gordon W. Lloyd, stood on this spot for 49 years. The site waited 34 years. In 1962, One Woodward Avenue opened there: 28 stories, designed by Minoru Yamasaki and Smith, Hinchman & Grylls. It has now stood 64 years, longer than the building it replaced.

One Woodward Avenue (formerly known as the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Building and American Natural Resources Building) is a 28-story office tower in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Located in the city's Financial District, it overlooks Hart Plaza and the International Riverfront. It was designed by Minoru Yamasaki in the International style, and completed in 1962.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Read the story of One Woodward Avenue Walk the block on the map
  1. 1879 Opens Newberry & McMillan Building
  2. 1928 Comes down Newberry & McMillan Building
  3. 1962 Rises One Woodward Avenue
  4. 2026 Today One Woodward Avenue, 64 years on the site
How we know what stands there
  • Wikidata at the same map point (25 m), opened 1962

Checked October 25, 2026. We never guess: a site no source speaks for shows no answer.

What is there now

One Woodward Avenue

  • Rose on the site 28 stories, commercial building Source: Wikidata
  • Newberry & McMillan Building came down Source: Historic Detroit
See then and now

We checked Wikidata, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Rebuild Detroit's landmark records and the county parcel records on October 25, 2026.

The story

By Victoria Jackson, Editor in Chief Updated

The Newberry & McMillan Building went up in 1879, in Detroit's Gilded Age, when stove works, shipyards and railroads made the city's first fortunes.

Gordon W. Lloyd drew the plans, working in Second Empire.

It is gone now, demolished in 1928, and the map pin below marks where it stood.

Timeline

  1. 1879 Built Designed by Gordon W. Lloyd
  2. 1928 Closed
  3. 1928 Demolished
  4. 2026 Today 98 years since it came down

Where it is

428-432 Griswold St.

On this map

  1. Newberry & McMillan Building This place
  2. Norton Hotel (second) 40 ft
  3. One Woodward Avenue 170 ft
  4. Norton Hotel (first) 180 ft
  5. Citizens Building 190 ft
  6. Guardian Building 220 ft
  7. Avenue Theatre 330 ft
  8. Buhl Building 330 ft
  9. 150 West Jefferson 360 ft

Street map from OpenStreetMap contributors

Who made it

Christ Church, by Gordon W. Lloyd Christ Church, by Gordon W. Lloyd. Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Architect

Gordon W. Lloyd

English-American architect, 1832 to 1904. Designed Christ Church (1863) and 17 more in Metro Detroit

Also by Gordon W. Lloyd

More from Detroit in the 1870s

Around the block

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.