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The Detroit Eight Mile Wall, also referred to as Detroit's Wailing Wall, Berlin Wall or The Birwood Wall, is a one-foot-thick (0.30 m), six-foot-high (1.8 m) separation wall that stretches about 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) in length. 1 foot (0.30 m) is buried in the ground and the remaining 5 feet (1.5 m) is visible to the community.
Neoclassical Chrysler House (1912) by Daniel Burnham in the Detroit Financial District. In the 1880s, Gilded Age architects such as Wilson Eyre [7] Gordon Lloyd, Harry J. Rill, Henry T Brush, Julius Hess, John V Smith, Elijah E Myers, Alamon C Varney, Mortimer L Smith, Peter Dederich, Joseph e MiIls and the firms Donaldson & Meier, Malcomson & Higginbotham and Mason & Rice who had designed ...
The tallest skyscraper in Detroit is the 73-story Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, which rises 727 feet (222 m) along Detroit's International Riverfront. [A] [ 1 ] It is the tallest building in the state of Michigan, the 97th-tallest building in the United States , and the second tallest hotel building in the Western Hemisphere . [ 1 ]
The Renaissance Center, commonly known as the RenCen, [8] is a complex of seven connected skyscrapers in downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States.Located on the Detroit International Riverfront, the RenCen is owned and used by General Motors as its world headquarters.
The Fisher Building is a landmark skyscraper located at 3011 West Grand Boulevard in the heart of the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan.The ornate 30-story building, completed in 1928, is one of the major works of architect Albert Kahn, and is designed in an Art Deco style, faced with limestone, granite, and several types of marble.
Architects and designers opted to leave some graffiti on walls to represent the station’s dormant years after closing in 1988. ... The adjacent building, known as the Detroit Public Schools Book ...
The Detroit Historic District Commission approved the continued construction of the Schaap Center for Performing Arts 6-0.
The Elliott Building was added to the northwest corner of Grand River Ave and Woodward Avenue. (Barns Block) in 1894 at the cost of about $80,000. The 6-story building, designed with distinctive red brick and red terra cotta is located on the site of the home of Detroit's first Mayor, General John R. Williams. John R. Street was named in his honor.