Million-dollar courtroom in Detroit, Michigan
| Description: |
In this photograph, a group of men pose inside a courtroom which is now located in the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse in Detroit, Michigan. Built with 30 different kinds of marble, the room cost nearly $1 million in 1931, leading newspapers to call it the million-dollar courtroom Originally located in the 1896 courthouse, the incredibly ornate courtroom was dismantled in sections and reassembled on the seventh floor of the current courthouse, at the urging of then-Chief U.S. District Judge Arthur Tuttle. It is unclear whether this photograph was taken in the demolished 1896 courthouse or the Levin courthouse that stands in 2020. |
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| Origin: | circa 1890s-1930s |
| Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll13/id/2124 |
| Collection: |
Indiana State Library Photograph Collections |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
Copyright Undetermined |
| Geography: |
Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Subjects: |
photographs buildings streets city life architecture courthouses men people lawyers Detroit (Mich.) Theodore Levin United States Courthouse (Detroit, Mich.) |
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