The original entrance doors for the Detroit News Building.

Photo from the University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library

The Detroit News Building's stately Lafayette lobby, about 1940. It has since been modernized several times.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

The Detroit News Building in 1986

Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

The Detroit News Building in 1986

Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

The Detroit News Building in the 1980s

Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

The Fort Street facade, shortly after the building opened

Photo from the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

The Lafayette Boulevard facade, shortly after the building opened

Photo from the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

The Detriot News Building in the early 1990s

Photo from the Detroit Free Press archives

One of the many strikes at the News over the years

Photo from the Detroit Free Press archives

The Detroit News Building, top middle, as seen from the west and at a time when that part of downtown was still mostly residential. .

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The Detroit News Building under construction

Photo from the Detroit News archives

The Detroit News Building in the 1980s

Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

The Detroit News Building, as seen from the air, is at the bottom middle of this photo.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

The Detroit News Building, seen here in about 1925, when the west side of downtown was still largely residential.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

Aerial view of the Detroit News Building (middle left). Note the houses that still dotted this part of downtown at the time.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

The Detroit News building shortly after opening

Photo from the University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library

The printing plant addition

Photo from the University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library

The printing plant addition

Photo from the University of Michigan Art, Architecture and Engineering Library

The Detroit News Building under construction, showing the Union Depot and Fort Street Presbyterian in the background.

Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

The Detroit News Building

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

The Detroit News Building, as seen from West Fort and Third Avenue, showing the later addition

Photo from the Detroit News archives

The Detroit News Building with WWJ radio transmitters. There is also one on the News parking garage in the background.

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The Detroit News Building as seen from Lafayette Boulevard and Third Avenue in 1926

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The Detroit News Building with WWJ radio transmitters in 1937. The Union Depot and Fort Street Presbyterian Church are at left.

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The Detroit News autogyro flying over the WWJ radio antennae atop the Detroit News Building in 1931

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With the radio towers atop the Detroit News Building no longer needed, they were dismantled in 1943 and donated to the war effort as scrap steel.