The erection of The Spirit of Detroit at the City-County Building (now Coleman A. Young Municipal Center) in 1958 marked the formal completion of the structure whose construction began in 1951. Located in front of a white marble wall at the entrance…
The Victory Eagle on the facade of the Veterans Memorial Building in Detroit is 30 feet high and projects 4½ feet from the wall in high relief. Seven free-standing pylons were originally placed in front of the building along the walkway leading to…
Mrs. Dorothy (Honey) Arbury studied with Fredericks when she attended Kingswood School at the Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in the 1930s. She met him through her uncle, Alden B. Dow, a prominent architect in Midland,…
Marshall Fredericks and architect James Hughes pose with an architectural drawing for the "Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life" with plaster models for "Male Baboon" and "Female Baboon".
Marshall Fredericks and architect James Hughes discussing an architectural drawing for the "Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life" with plaster models for "Male Baboon" and "Female Baboon" in the background.