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Building, Rivertown, since 1933

United States Immigration Station

Still standing, photographed 2013

Rosa Parks Federal Building, 333 Mt Elliott Detroit MI, 2013 Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Opened
1933
Style
Colonial Revival
Standing
93 years

Designed by James A. Wetmore

The United States Immigration Station has stood on Mount Elliott St. in Rivertown since 1933, 93 years and counting. Who built it, what makes it special and how to see it for yourself.

On the map

More photos of United States Immigration Station

The U.S. Immigration Station in Detroit, Michigan in 2024 or earlier Photo: U.S. General Services Administration Office of Real Property Disposition, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rosa Parks Federal Building, 333 Mt Elliott Detroit MI, 2013 Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rosa Parks Federal Building, 333 Mt Elliott Detroit MI: Door on front, 2013 Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is there now

Standing

We checked building permits, sales, listings and the city's blight and demolition files on October 24, 2026. Nothing new at this address in the last two years.

The story

By Victoria Jackson, Editor in Chief Updated

The United States Immigration Station opened in 1933, as Detroit pushed through the Depression.

Credit the design to James A. Wetmore, working in Colonial Revival.

It joined the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

Go see it at 333 Mount Elliott St. Photos never get the scale right.

The United States Immigration Station is a former government building located at 333 Mount Elliott Street in Detroit, Michigan. Until March 2024, it was known as the Rosa Parks Federal Building,

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Timeline

  1. 1933 Built Designed by James A. Wetmore
  2. 2013 Listed on the National Register May 22, 2013
  3. 2026 Today 93 years and still standing

Where it is

333 Mount Elliott St.

On this map

  1. United States Immigration Station This place
  2. Marine Hospital 250 ft
  3. The Players 0.2 mi
  4. Lofts at Rivertown 0.3 mi
  5. Frederick Stearns Building 0.3 mi
  6. Deaconess Hospital 0.3 mi
  7. William H. Wells House 0.4 mi
  8. East Jefferson Avenue Residential TR 0.4 mi
  9. Uniroyal 0.4 mi

Street map from OpenStreetMap contributors

Who made it

James A. Wetmore
Photo: National Photo Company Collection, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Architect

James A. Wetmore

American architect, 1863 to 1940. Designed the United States Immigration Station (1933)

More from Detroit in the 1930s

Around the block

It is in Rivertown. See the neighborhood's homes, pros and story.

Photo credits

Every photo on this page is used under its license, named here with its author and a link to the original.

  1. Rosa Parks Federal Building, 333 Mt Elliott Detroit MI, 2013 Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  2. The U.S. Immigration Station in Detroit, Michigan in 2024 or earlier Photo: U.S. General Services Administration Office of Real Property Disposition, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  3. Rosa Parks Federal Building, 333 Mt Elliott Detroit MI, 2013 Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  4. Rosa Parks Federal Building, 333 Mt Elliott Detroit MI: Door on front, 2013 Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  5. Rosa Parks Federal Building, 333 Mt Elliott Detroit MI: Medallion on facade, 2013 Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources

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