An excellent example of the New Formalist style is now available for the relatively low price of $4.3 million.

Local news outlets are reporting the recent addition of Minoru Yamasaki’s Michigan State Medical Society to the real estate market in East Lansing.

The architect of the World Trade Center received the commission for the building in 1959, marking his first major project outside of Metro Detroit. It was given a two-story extension in 1979 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 

Yamasaki’s design features a column-lined exterior connected by 31 cast-concrete arches which form a profile later repeated in the Trade Center’s podium and characterized by an internal collaborative office plan and vaulted ceilings.

“The intent was to build a serene and inviting building to express the idealism and humanity of the medical profession,” Yamasaki said shortly after it was completed in 1961. 

Buyers can be assured as to the health of the 60-year-old structure, as its previous owners were commended for their stewardship by the state government in 2012, complimenting the society for its ongoing relationship with the original interior designers and stating that it had adhered to “the strictest preservation standards.”