Weston and Ellington Prolific Detroit

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...

 based architectural firm operating in the 1910s and 1920s. They designed numerous apartment buildings, offices, auto sales buildings and other commercial structures, mostly in and around the city of Detroit.

Weston & Ellington were one of the many firms that employed Detroit architectural sculptor

Architectural sculpture

Architectural sculpture is the term for the use of sculpture by an architect and/or sculptor in the design of a building, bridge, mausoleum or other such project...

 Corrado Parducci

Corrado Parducci

Corrado Giuseppe Parducci was an Italian-American architectural sculptor who was a celebrated artist for his numerous early 20th Century works.-Early life and education:...

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Selected commissions

All are in Detroit, Michigan

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...

, unless otherwise stated.

• Metropolitan Building (Detroit)
  Metropolitan Building (Detroit)
  The Metropolitan Building is a high-rise office building located on a triangular lot at 33 John R Street in downtown Detroit, Michigan, near Grand Circus Park.The building was built in 1924 and finished in 1925...
  
  

• The Price [Macomb Daily] Building Mount Clemens, Michigan
  Mount Clemens, Michigan
  Mount Clemens is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 17,312. It is the county seat of Macomb County.-Early history:...
  
  , 1928

• New Light Baptist Church, (formerly Nardin Park Methodist Church), 1929

• The Wardell,

• Delta Tau Delta
  Delta Tau Delta
  Delta Tau Delta is a U.S.-based international secret letter college fraternity. Delta Tau Delta was founded in 1858 at Bethany College, Bethany, Virginia, . It currently has around 125 student chapters nationwide, as well as more than 25 regional alumni groups. Its national community service...
  
   Fraternity House, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  Ann 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...
  
  

• Hotel Fort Wayne

• Cadillac Casket Company Building

• St. Peter's Parish House

Sources and references

The Recent Work of Weston & Ellington: Architects & Engineers, Detroit Michigan, 1928

• New Light church building http://www.flickr.com/photos/71288712@N00/371717644/