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English: The Park Shelton, 15 East Kirby Street at Woodward Avenue, as seen from the side lawn of the Detroit Institute of Arts, December 2020. Built in 1926 from a design by the local firm of Weston and Ellington, the building combines the overall sensibilities of the Sullivanesque style with restrained detailing suggestive of Italian Renaissance influences, the work of renowned architectural sculptor Corrado Parducci: a rusticated ground floor featuring large round-arched windows on the side pavilions and straddling the entrance contrasting with 20-pane rectangular ones in between, the latter interspersed with stylized Corinthian pilaster strips; a frieze above the tenth floor featuring Greek-style ornamentation and another one at the roofline with a scrollwork motif echoing that above the entrance. The building served as a hotel for the first decades of its existence: first the Wardell, with luxurious apartment-style rooms intended for extended stays, then under the ownership of the Sheraton chain from 1943 until its sale nine years later to New York hotelier Louis Schleiffer, who gave it its present name. The building was converted to apartments in the 1970s, and then to condominiums in 2004.