Theodore Levin U.S. District Courthouse
April 7 2017 | 10:00am to April 8 2017 | 11:55am
Tickets available to all members starting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 14, 2017. No tickets will be sold before this time! Public registration for any remaining tickets begins on March 28.
Friday tour!
Construction began on the Detroit Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse in April 1932 and was completed in March 1934. Along with marble floors and intricate hand-paintings, there are 24 courtrooms inside, six of which are historic. One, known as the “Million Dollar Courtroom” due to its original cost in the 1890s, was painstakingly disassembled when the original courthouse was demolished and then reassembled in the current building, where it is still in use today. The building also features several ornamental bas-relief sculptural groupings created by noted Detroit architectural modeler Corrado Joseph Parducci. Parducci designed the sculptural panels and medallions to depict various agencies and activities of the federal government at the time. On May 1, 1995, the courthouse was designated the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse.
