A fire broke out at the building housing Metro's headquarters in Northwest Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning, damaging a building that WMATA has wanted to move out of for years, in part due to ...

We asked you to send us your memories of the Metropolitan Building after fire destroyed it on Nov. 7. Notes arrived from several eras – the late 1920s and '30s, the '50s and '60s, '80s and '90s. From ...

Detroit — Once vandalized by graffiti and thieves, the Metropolitan Building, soon to open as the Element Hotel, sits lit in its former terra cotta, brick and granite glory Monday. During a dedication ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. They were once prevalent in downtown Detroit: Trees ...

Left: Photo of building from 2010. Right: Rendering of building after renovation. DETROIT – One of Detroit's largest - and vacant - skyscrapers is beginning construction on a new, mixed-use ...

When author Larry Millett published "Lost Twin Cities" in 1992, the book's cover featured an image of the glorious interior of the long-demolished Metropolitan Building. Twenty-six years later, ...

A two-alarm fire on the rooftop of Metro’s new headquarters being built near L’Enfant Plaza caused a plume of black smoke that was visible over downtown Washington late Thursday morning. Firefighters ...