The Whitman house from 1934 won the Gold Medal at the 1937 Paris Exhibition for domestic architecture. The other winners that year: the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center.  Photo 1 of 30 in Michigan: Day One by Aaron Britt

Michigan: Day One

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The Whitman house from 1934 won the Gold Medal at the 1937 Paris Exhibition for domestic architecture. The other winners that year: the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center.