The American Beauty Building [[aka the American Electrical Heating Co. building) is definitely by Albert Kahn. A photo of it was published on page 265 of the June 19, 1912 issue of the American Architect. The credit line is "Mr. Albert Kahn, Architect - Mr. Ernest Wilby, Associate." [[I cannot seem to produce a .jpg file small enough to successfully attach).

The Detroit City Directories list the American Electrical Heating Co. at a State Street address through 1908, and the 1909 City Directory is the first to list the Company at the corner of Woodward and Burroughs.

Ernest Wilby is the mystery-man in the Albert Kahn saga. He was with Kahn for a while, then he wasn't; but the firm's architectural work in the time he was there is surely some of the finest that Albert Kahn [[the firm) ever did, including the American Electrical Heating Co. building.

It would be a crime to tear this building down to join the sea of surface parking that presently exists.