Metropolitan Building
The Metropolitan Building is a turn-of-the-century office building which has seen better days. It has been boarded up and empty for many years. A renovation project sputtered its way through the latter half of the 2000s, finally fizzling out by 2009.

The Metropolitan is a far more restrained design than its fraternal neighbor. Simple surface patterns and outlining recall the Chicago School style. The building once sported a projecting cornice, now missing like so many others in the city.

November 2010

May 2005 - renovation needed
(image courtesy Kevin Kieffer)

November 2005 - renovation promised

July 2007 - renovation underway

April 2009 - renovation stalled

November 2010 - renovation dead

Image courtesy of Kevin Kieffer.

Image courtesy of Kevin Kieffer.

Image courtesy of Kevin Kieffer.

Image courtesy of Kevin Kieffer.