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L. B. King and Company Building

L. B. King and Company Building is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand L. B. King and Company Building rather than just read about it. In short: The L. B.

Key takeaways

L. B. King and Company Building belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect L. B. King and Company Building to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of L. B. King and Company Building from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The L. B. King and Company Building is a commercial building located at 1274 Library Street in Detroit, Michigan. It is also known as the Annis Furs Building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1987.

History L. B. King was born in Detroit in 1851, was educated in the city, and earned a BS degree from the University of Michigan in 1874. After graduation, King joined his father's crockery and glassware firm, which had been founded in 1849. He rose through the ranks to become president of the company in 1907, by which time the company was specializing as a china wholesaler. In 1910, King engaged architects Rogers and MacFarlane to design this building as their offices; the structure was completed in 1911. The firm maintained its headquarters in the building from 1911 to 1932. In 1932, Annis Furs, a wholesale and retail furrier established by Newton Annis in 1887, moved into the building. They used the building until 1983, nearly the last example of the fur industry that helped found Detroit nearly 300 years earlier. In 1988 the Law Firm of Patterson, Phifer, and Phillips hired Frank Z. Martin to refurbish the building. Both L. B. King and Company and Annis Furs were prominent commercial firms in the history of Detroit. The building was renovated placed on the National Register of Historic Places and the state of Michigan historic register in 1987, and later renovated and reopened in 1988.

Description The L. B. King and Company Building is a six-story commercial building with a steel frame with white terra cotta cladding on the facade. The facade of the lower two stories are virtually all glass; the upper four stories are divided into four vertical sections, each with Chicago-style windows. Atop the building is an elaborate Italian Renaissance cornice which was added in 1926. The building exemplifies the Commercial style of architecture that was extensively used in the early twentieth century.

References

External links Elbert Hubbard, A Little Journey to L. B. King & Company's: Being an Appreciation, The Roycrofters, 1913 (26 pages)

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with L. B. King and Company Building

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what L. B. King and Company Building claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to L. B. King and Company Building before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about L. B. King and Company Building ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of L. B. King and Company Building

In research: L. B. King and Company Building appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses L. B. King and Company Building in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: L. B. King and Company Building is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1911 establishments in Michigan, Buildings and structures completed in 1911, Chicago school architecture in Michigan, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for L. B. King and Company Building outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study L. B. King and Company Building in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Frequently asked questions

What is L. B. King and Company Building in simple terms?

The L. B.

Why does L. B. King and Company Building matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study L. B. King and Company Building?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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