who was an ornamentalist and Parducci was the sculptor. Parducci met Albert Kahn in New York City who urged him to come to Detroit and work on two bank buildings on Griswold Street. Parducci came to Detroit to work for only a couple of months. Anthony DiLorenzo had some work here and Kahn wanted Parducci. He worked indirectly for Kahn through DiLorenzo. Other work came from Detroit architects Donaldson & Meier, Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, and George D. Mason. The first 8 months, 1924 to middle of 1925, Parducci worked under DiLorenzo. The Masonic Temple contracts were DiLorenzos' jobs until Parducci bought them out for $5,000.00. Parducci's lobby design was reportedly adapted from an old castle in Palermo, Sicily. Parducci did model the 5' bronze floor plaque depicting Strength, Truth and Beauty. He sculpted the two plaques in the stone walls of the interior stairs of the Scottish Rite entrance. These two are repeated in the lobby as plaster plaques. List of buildings containing Parducci's art St. Thomas the Apostle Church (1923) The Players (1925) Buhl Building (1925) The Park Shelton (1926) Grand Rapids Trust Building (1926) Penobscot Building (1928) Detroit Zoo Rackham Memorial Fountain Webster Hall, Wayne State University (Demolished in 1991) David Stott Building (1929) Detroit Masonic Temple (1926) Wilson Theater, now Music Hall (1926) Edsel and Eleanor Ford House (1927) Lee Plaza (1929) Fisher Building (1929) Meadow Brook Hall (1929) Guardian Building (1929) Louisiana State Capitol (1929) Shrine of the Little Flower (1930s-1940s) Central Mutual Insurance Company Home Office (Van Wert, Ohio) (1931) Detroit Federal Building (1934) St. Peter Cathedral (Marquette, Michigan) (1938) Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1938) Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament (1940s-1950s) Detroit Historical Museum (1951) "The Shrine of the Holy Innocents" at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Chicago. (Memorial for the victims of the 1958 Our Lady of the Angels school fire). (c.1959) Ann Arbor News Building, 1936 Trinity Lutheran Church Charles T. Fisher Residence Alfred J. Fisher Residence William A. Fisher Residence Frank Couzens Residence Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corporation Building Kresge Building Springwells Water Treatment Plant Hudson Motor Car Factory (Demolished) St. Aloysius Church St. John's Seminary, now The Inn At St. Johns University of Detroit Mercy Standard Club of Chicago Second National Bank of Saginaw Kalamazoo Gazette Building, Kalamazoo, Michigan Kalamazoo County Building, Kalamazoo See also Architecture of metropolitan Detroit References Further reading