Charles Phoenix visits Detroit's 'Stuffed Animal House'

Writer and mid-century and American culture buff Charles Phoenix visits Detroit, calls it Detroitland, and discovers that art is everywhere.

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Before I could snap myself back to reality I got back on the People Mover-Monorail bound for the next stop. Just steps away from the station I found myself standing before what has to be Detroitland’s ultimate architectural treasure, and the most colorful art deco skyscraper anywhere, the Guardian Building. It’s more like what I would call a skyscraping temple. Completed in 1929, inside and out the 44- story super structure is sampler platter of Native American, Aztec and Art Deco design details often highlighted with orange, yellow and turquoise tiles. Then I walked around the corner and saw a sign atop a storefront that simply read: ART IS EVERYWHERE. I was stopped dead in my tracks because in Detroitland art is everywhere.

Here’s to the Stuffed Animal House, the other spellbinding attractions in Detroitland and YOU!

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