Detroit: Penobscot Building and City Hall

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1930  

etching and color aquatint 

16 3/8 x 11 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

7/100, approximately 15 printed 

pencil titled in lower left; bears red stamp "F.P.C." for Friedl Pollak Collection in the lower left corner of the paper; inscribed along lower sheet edge: "printed a. 15" 

 

cream laid Van Gelder Zonen watermarked 

published 

artist 

22474 

$900.00 

This view of Detroit shows the old city hall designed in the Italian Renaissance revival architectural style.This three story City Hall was built in 1871 and demolished in 1961. The forty-seven story Penobscot Building rises above the other skyscrapers. It was built in 1905 and remains a premier location for commercial offices in downtown Detroit.