Iodent Building (Detroit, Michigan)

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The Iodent Building, built in 1923, was originally called the Wormer & Moore Building. The Wormer & Moore Investment Company moved from its offices on the corner of Griswold and Jefferson and took over the building when it was finished. In addition to its namesake company, the eight-story structure originally housed a number of real estate and insurance companies with names like Pointe, Mohawk, and the Maumee and Notre Dame Real Estate Company, though mixed in with those was the occasional oddity, such as the Russian-American-French Art Industries, which, despite the lofty name was nothing more than a dressmaking business. The Mayfair restaurant was located on the ground floor for years. By World War Two the building, like many in the city, was largely vacant, but it rebounded and was purchased after the war by the Iodent Chemical Company, toothpaste manufacturers, which operated out of the building for years. By the 1970s, the building became vacant.

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