Editing Penobscot Building (section)

==Height==
[[File:Penobscot Building (NBY 23701).jpg|thumb|Penobscot Building on an undated postcard]]

Upon completion, the Penobscot Building was the eighth-tallest building in the world, the fourth-tallest in the United States<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/2015/01/28/penobscot-building-detroit-light/22465593/| newspaper=[[Detroit Free Press]]| title=What's up with the Penobscot Building's light?| access-date=2015-01-28| date=2015-01-28| quote=...the Penobscot was the eighth-tallest building in the world — and the fourth tallest in the United States — when it opened 87 years ago.}}</ref> and the tallest outside of [[New York City|New York]] and [[Chicago]].<ref name="emporis">{{cite web| title=Penobscot Building| url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=penobscotbuilding-detroit-mi-usa| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070319040029/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=penobscotbuilding-detroit-mi-usa| url-status=usurped| archive-date=March 19, 2007| website=[[Emporis]]| access-date=2010-07-04}}</ref><ref name="penobscot">{{cite web| url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=935| title=Penobscot Building| access-date=2010-07-04| website=[[SkyscraperPage]]}}</ref> Rising {{convert|566|ft|m}}, the 47-story Penobscot was the tallest building in Michigan from its completion in 1928 until construction of the [[Renaissance Center]] hotel tower in 1977. [[Ally Detroit Center]] (formerly One Detroit Center) surpassed the Penobscot as the [[List of tallest buildings in Detroit|tallest office building in Detroit]] upon its completion in 1993. The framing elevation drawing of this building shows a height of {{convert|562.166|ft|m|abbr=on}} to the highest roof, approximately {{convert|565.75|ft|m|abbr=on}} to the parapet wall around the roof, and {{convert|654.166|ft|m|abbr=on}} to the top of the warning beacon atop the antenna.

The Penobscot has 45 above-ground floors and two basement levels, for a total floor count of 47. Although the Penobscot Building has more floors than [[Ally Detroit Center]] (45 above-ground floors compared to 43 for Ally Detroit Center), the floors and [[spire]]s of One Detroit are taller, with its roof sitting roughly {{convert|60|ft|m|abbr=on}} higher than that of the Penobscot.

===Name origin===
The building is named for the Penobscot River in Maine. The building was named by Simon J. Murphy, President of the Simon J. Murphy Company. Murphy named the building from his association with lumbering in the Maine woods and on the Penobscot River in Maine.<ref>{{cite book| last=Ferry| first=W. Hawkins| title=The Buildings of Detroit: A History| publisher=Wayne State University Press| location=Detroit| edition=revised| year=1980| page=330| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MyIRAQAAMAAJ&q=penobscot| isbn=978-0-8143-1665-8| url-access=subscription}}</ref> Motifs in art deco style ornamentation is used on the exterior and the interiors. The following version of the choice of the name of the building is found in an undated publication believed to have been published concurrent with the building's dedication in 1928:
:An intimation of the [[Simon J. Murphy Sr.]] family's early history, together with the expression of genuine sentiment regarding the beginnings of the Murphy fortune, is contained in the name of the Greater Penobscot Building...... Long before the Civil War days, Simon J. Murphy and his partner, then two lads who had grown up in the Maine woods obtained their first employment in one of the logging camps along the Penobscot River - a stream named for the powerful tribe of Penobscot Indians.