The Fisher Building was completed in 1928. Albert Kahn Associates designed it, with Joseph Nathaniel French as chief architect. It has 30 stories. The roof is 428 feet up and the spire reaches 444 feet.
The Fisher family paid for it with money from selling Fisher Body to General Motors. The three-story barrel-vaulted lobby uses forty kinds of marble and was decorated by the Hungarian artist Géza Maróti. Several sculptors worked on the outside, including Corrado Parducci.
The roof was first covered in gold-leaf tiles. They were covered with asphalt during World War II and replaced with green tiles. Since the 1980s, colored lights have made the green tiles look gold at night. It became a National Historic Landmark on June 29, 1989.