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File:PhilipBreitmeyer.jpg|thumb|left|Philip BreitmeyerPhilip BreitmeyerThe BreitmeyerâTobin Building was built in 1906BOOK, Hill, Eric J., and John Gallagher, AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture, 2002, Wayne State University Press, 0-8143-3120-3, registration,weblink P. 48. for John Breitmeyer Sons, Florists, who were at the time the leading florists in Detroit.Breitmeyer-Tobin Building {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011065836weblink |date=2007-10-11 }} from the city of Detroit The firm's president, Philip Breitmeyer, served as the mayor of Detroit from 1909 to 1911.In 1926, the ownership of the building was transferred to the Peninsular Bank Company, and the building was renamed the Peninsular Bank Building. The bank failed,Breitmeyer-Tobin Building from Detroit1701.org and ten years later, in the depths of the Great Depression, the building was 75% unoccupied; the main tenant was the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, who occupied the top floor. Metropolitan was notable for its willingness to write small insurance policies for African Americans. At around the same time, the owners of the building opened up office space to rental by African Americans; the building was one of the first downtown to do so.In 1944, Benjamin Tobin acquired the building, renamed it the BreitmeyerâTobin Building, and marketed the office space to black professionals. Notable African American firms had offices in the building, including the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (the largest Black union in America at the time);BOOK, Sharoff, Robert, American City: Detroit Architecture, 1845-2005, Wayne State University Press, 2005, 0-8143-3270-6, Robert Sharoff, P. 22. the law firm of Loomis, Jones, Piper and Colden; attorney Harold Bledsoe; optometrists William H. and Lloyd Lawson; and future judges Damon Keith and Hobart Taylor Jr.The building has recently been refurbished, with commercial space on the first floor and various offices in the upper floors.Description
The eight-story building, designed by the architectural firm of Raseman & Fischer, is an unusual Beaux-Arts building from the turn of the century.Beth L. Savage, Carol D. Shull, United States National Park Service, National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, Preservation Press, African American historic places, John Wiley and Sons, 1995, {{ISBN|0-471-14345-6}}, {{ISBN|978-0-471-14345-1}}, pp. 285â286. It includes glazed terra cotta elements.See also
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