Graybar Electric Company Building
- Also Known As: Board of Education Department of Audio-Visual Service Building
- Address: 55 W Canfield
- Urban District of Midtown Detroit in Detroit
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1926/00/00 | Graybar Electric Company | Lessee | The Graybar Electric Company rents the Graybar Electric Company Building building from the contracting firm, C F Haglin and Sons. Graybar operate a distribution center here until well into the 1940s. | |||
| 1926/06/14 | C F Haglin and Sons | Architect | C F Haglin and Sons is issued a permit to build a tree-story brick and concrete, industrial style office building with a reinforced concrete frame in Detroit, Michigan. The estimated cost of construction is $120,000. | Invention of Reinforced Concrete | ||
| 1929/00/00 | Graybar Electric Company | History | Graybar employees buy the company. It is the first large scale business to be purchased by its employees. Nearly all of Graybar's 2,300 employees bought their allotted shares of stock. | |||
| 1935/00/00 | Graybar Electric Company | History | Graybar continues to pay a common dividend through the Great Sepression even though business volume will retract to one-third of the $85,371,000 it had made in 1929, the first year of employee-ownership. | Stock Market Crash of 1929 |
| Particulars for Graybar Electric Company Building: | |
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| Sight Category | Building |
| Area of Significance | Commerce |
| Building Material | Concrete |
| Era | Great Depression |
| Structure Attribute | Reinforced Concrete |
| Building Type | Warehouse |
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