Dime Building

Chrysler House is a skyscraper in downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. Designed in the Neoclassical architectural style, the class-A office building is adjacent to the Penobscot Building in the heart of the U.S. designated Detroit Financial District. The building stands 23 stories tall, with eight elevators, and was constructed between 1910 and 1912 and known for many years as the Dime Building. It is used as an office building with retail space on the street level. The tower was designed in the Neo-Classical style by Daniel Burnham. The steel-framed structure is faced with white glazed brick and terra cotta trim. The most distinctive feature is the central light court which begins on the third floor and creates a U-shaped floor plan on the upper office floors. The main banking hall occupied the space below the light court and featured a large skylight.

In a subsequent renovation, the lower two floors were refaced with gray granite and a pediment above the central entrance and cornice were removed. For several years through 1983, the building housed the headquarters of Bank of the Commonwealth until the bank merged with Comerica. In 2002, a $40-million renovation was completed. When completed in 1912, the tower was named the Dime Savings Bank Building for its primary tenant. It was later renamed the Commonwealth Building, briefly known as Griswold Place. It became the Dime Building again in 2002 before being renamed in 2012.

In August 2011, Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert purchased the building along with the nearby Chase Tower, First National Building and Wright-Kay Building which he also purchased that year.

On April 30, 2012, Gilbert and Chrysler Group LLC chairman Sergio Marchionne announced that Chrysler will move its Great Lakes Business Center and some executive offices, with approximately 70 employees, into the two top floors of the building. As part of the lease, the building was renamed for the company.