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The Theodore Levin United States Courthouse is a large high-rise courthouse and office building located at 231 West Lafayette Boulevard in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The structure occupies an entire block, girdled by Shelby Street, Washington Boulevard, West Fort Street, and West Lafayette Boulevard . The building is named after the late Theodore Levin, a lawyer and United States District Court judge.Construction began in 1932 and finished in 1934. It stands at 10 stories in height, with its top floor at 50 metres from the first floor entrance, with the roof being 56.1 metres, or 184ft in height from the top of the roof to the streets below. The building was designed in the Art Deco and art moderne styles of architecture, incorporating granite and limestone into the structure. The main façade is limestone, above a polished black stone.Inside the building, there is an open-center court above the second floor. The building contains relief sculptures of eagles and emblems above the entrance, which symbolize the building's governmental function .