Spier and Rohns
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Detroit, Michigan
Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
architectural firm
Architectural firm
An architectural firm is a company which employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture.- History :Architects have existed since early in recorded history. The earliest recorded architects include Imhotep and Senemut . No writings exist to describe how these...
operated by Frederick Spier and W. C. Rohns, best remembered for designs of churches and railroad stations. These were frequently executed in the Richardson Romanesque style.
Notable commissions
- Michigan Central RailroadMichigan Central RailroadThe Michigan Central Railroad was originally incorporated in 1846 to establish rail service between Detroit, Michigan and St. Joseph, Michigan. The railroad later operated in the states of Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois in the United States, and the province of Ontario in Canada...
depot (since 1969 the Gandy DancerGandy dancerGandy dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years before the work was done by machines....
restaurant) Ann Arbor, MichiganAnn Arbor, MichiganAnn Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...
, 1886 - Michigan Central Railroad depot, (as of 2009 the Niles Amtrak Station) Niles, MichiganNiles, MichiganNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. The population was 11,600 at the 2010 census. It is the greater populated of two principal cities of and included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a...
, 1890 - Kelsey Museum of ArchaeologyMuseums at the University of MichiganThe University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is home to a number of museums. The majority of them on Central Campus, which include the Exhibit Museum of Natural History , Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art...
, built as the Young Women's Christian AssociationYoung Women's Christian AssociationYoung Women's Christian Association or YWCA or YWCA Building or Old YWCA Building or variations may refer to:*World YWCA, the organization formerly known as Young Women's Christian Associationor it may refer to:...
building, Ann Arbor, 1891 - Gethsemane Evangelical Lutheran ChurchGethsemane Evangelical Lutheran ChurchGethsemane Evangelical Lutheran Church is a church located at 4461 Twenty-Eighth Street in Detroit, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1980 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982...
, Detroit, 1891 - Sweetest Heart Of Mary Roman Catholic ChurchSweetest Heart Of Mary Roman Catholic ChurchSweetest Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church is located at 4440 Russell Street in Detroit, Michigan in the Forest Park neighborhood on the city's central East side. The Gothic Revival Cathedral styled Church is the largest of the Roman Catholic Churches in the City of Detroit...
, Detroit, 1892 - Detroit Chamber of Commerce Building, (currenty named United Way Community Services BuildingUnited Way Community Services BuildingThe United Way Community Services Building is a high-rise office building completed in 1895 at 1212 Griswold Street, at the northeast corner of State Street, in the Capitol Park Historic District of downtown Detroit, Michigan. The 12-storey building was designed by architects, Spier and Rohns, and...
, Detroit, 1895 (the tallest building in Detroit at the time of its construction) - St. Thomas Church, Ann Arbor, 1897
- Union Depot (Lansing, Michigan)Union Depot (Lansing, Michigan)The Union Depot is a former train station in Lansing, Michigan. The Union Depot began passenger service for the Michigan Central and Pere Marquette Railroads in 1902. The Detroit architectural firm of Spier and Rohns, which planned many Michigan Central stations, designed the building with...
, Lansing, MichiganLansing, MichiganLansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located mostly in Ingham County, although small portions of the city extend into Eaton County. The 2010 Census places the city's population at 114,297, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan...
, 1902 (Since 1978 - Clara's Restaurant) - Durand Union StationDurand Union StationDurand Union Station, also known as the Grand Trunk Railway Station, is an Amtrak train station in Durand, Michigan.-Construction and operation:...
, Durand, MichiganDurand, MichiganDurand is a city in Shiawassee County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 3,933.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.-Demographics:...
, 1903 - Grand Trunk RailwayGrand Trunk RailwayThe Grand Trunk Railway was a railway system which operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, as well as the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The railway was operated from headquarters in Montreal, Quebec; however, corporate...
Station, Portland, MainePortland, MainePortland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...
, 1903 (razed 1966)