Fisher Building

Famous Detroiters

Famous people tied to this place 4

Lexicon entries for the people who lived, worked, performed or liked to spend time here.

• Grace Lee Whitney 1930–2015 · actress, singer

  Performed here

  WJR has broadcast from the Fisher Building in New Center since December 1928; Whitney sang on the station at 14.

• Albert Kahn 1869–1942 · architect

  Worked here

  His firm's Art Deco masterpiece in New Center, with a gilded three-story arcade; a National Historic Landmark.

• Géza Maróti 1875–1941 · sculptor, architect, applied artist

  Worked here

  Albert Kahn's Art Deco skyscraper in New Center; Maróti painted the arcade ceilings and designed sculpture and bronze details.

• Charles T. Fisher 1880–1963 · co-founder of Fisher Body, industrialist and banker

  Founded

  The brothers' Art Deco tower by Albert Kahn, with the Fisher Theatre inside; a National Historic Landmark across from Cadillac Place.