Italian Renaissance

Mackenzie Hall opened in 1925 at Cass Avenue and Putnam as the 800-room Webster Hall hotel. The 12-story concrete-and-steel building had two coffee shops, a large pool in the basement and conference rooms. It was a residential hotel for men and women. In the 1930s, the hotel operated in bankruptcy.

The Merrill Fountain opened in 1901 in front of the old Detroit Opera House that stood on Campus Martius.

The elaborately detailed, white marble structure was designed in the Italian Renaissance style by John Carrere and Thomas Hastings, a pair of New York's top architects who also designed the New York Public Library. It was commissioned by Elizabeth "Lizzie" Merrill Palmer in honor of her father, lumber baron Charles Merrill.