The Fisher Building stands at 3011 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit's New Center area. Albert Kahn Associates designed it, with Joseph Nathaniel French as chief architect, and it was completed in 1928. The Fisher family financed it with proceeds from the sale of Fisher Body to General Motors. It was planned as three buildings but scaled back to one tower because of the Great Depression.
The building is Art Deco, with Mayan Revival elements in the theater. It has 30 stories and a roof 428 feet (130 meters) high. The exterior is faced with limestone, granite and several types of marble. A three-story barrel-vaulted lobby uses forty kinds of marble and was decorated by Géza Maróti.
The Fisher Theatre was renovated in 1961 into a playhouse of 2,089 seats. The building became a National Historic Landmark on June 29, 1989, and it holds offices, retail space and radio studios.
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