This imposing hipped-roof building of shingles and rough-dressed fieldstone in the Richardsonian Romanesque manner evokes the feeling of a miniature Norman chateau with its use of twin turrets massed on either side of the central round-arched entrance.
Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Police Station", [Detroit, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-WN120.
Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 111-111.
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