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Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...
The rise of manufacturing led to a new class of wealthy industrialists, entrepreneurs, and professionals who built houses along Jefferson and Woodward Avenue, including the Croul-Palms House (1881), the William H. Wells House (1889), the John N. Bagley House (1889), the Col. Frank J. Hecker House (1888) and the Charles Lang Freer House (1887).
Name Image Location Summary Bricktown Historic District Separates the Renaissance Center from Greektown.: Bricktown separates the Renaissance Center from Greektown. [citation needed] Bricktown is home to St. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church, the oldest standing church in Detroit, and the Italian Renaissance style Wayne County Building (which was saved from demolition in the early 1980s).
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Woodbridge is a historic neighborhood of primarily Victorian homes located in Detroit, Michigan.The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, with later boundary increases in 1997 and 2008. [1]
The Virginia Park Historic District is considered to mark the northern boundary of the New Center area of Detroit. In 2022, one of Detroit's last remaining brick streets, built in 1907 in Virginia Park, began a $2 million rehabilitation. Stretching three blocks along Virginia Park Street between Woodward Ave, and the Lodge Freeway.
CNN and Money stated in 2012 that "Detroit's East English Village is a well-kept neighborhood of tree-lined streets". [7] In Curbed Detroit's 2016 Curbed Cup, East English Village was voted "Best Neighborhood in Detroit". [8]
An inner-ring suburb of Detroit, Dearborn Heights is located about 12 miles (19 km) west of downtown Detroit. The city shares a small border with Detroit, and is considered a bedroom community. [5] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 63,292. [6]