Cadillac Tower is a 40-story, 133.4 m (438 ft) Beaux Arts skyscraper designed by the architectural firm of Bonnah & Chaffee at 65 Cadillac Square in downtown Detroit, Michigan, not far from Renaissance Center. The building's materials include terra cotta and brick. It was built in 1927 as Barlum Tower, including two below ground. At the top of the tower is a tall guyed mast for local radio station WJLB and television station WLPC-LD. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
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“With the noise of the mourning of the Swattish nation!
Fallen is at length
Its tower of strength;
Its sun is dimmed ere it had nooned;
Dead lies the great Ahkoond,
The great Ahkoond of Swat
Is not!”
—George Thomas Lanigan (1845–1886)