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English: Van Dyke Manor Apartments, 1000 Van Dyke Street at East Lafayette Street, Detroit, Michigan, December 2020. A contributing property to the National Register-listed West Village Historic District, Van Dyke Manor was built in 1928, a time in which the detached single-family homes that had previously monopolized the neighborhood were beginning to give way in some cases to midsized apartment buildings of its kind. Architect Jacob Weinberg is responsible for the building's unusual style - based on but not constrained by the Spanish Revival - which has been described by Curbed Detroit as imbued with "classic Jazz Age glamor". Twisted or Solomonic columns are the most prolific design motif to be seen on the building, and they figure especially into the front entrance, which is where you'll find the most intriguing decorative scheme: there you'll find not only the columns but a pair of scroll buttresses above and an interesting bell-shaped arch above the doorway, all of which are topped by a recessed balconet on the second story with intriguing spindle-shaped columns and a diagonal cross balustrade along the bottom. Notable also is the corner tower, styled in imitation of the campaniles on Mediterranean churches; there's an arcaded corbel table lining the base as well as stone urns decorating the "belfry". By contrast, the seemingly irregular pattern of alternately projecting and recessed elevations on the façade is an influence borrowed from Art Deco, while the segmental arches and pilaster strips that feature on the multistory bay windows add a mote of Neoclassicism. The building has been owned by local development firm Silva Properties since 2017, and were thoroughly renovated (and the building renamed "1000 West") at that time.
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