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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 ...
William Amerine House: 22028 Donald Street East Detroit: November 15, 1990: Loren Andrus House† 57500 Van Dyke Street Washington: April 23, 1971: John C. and Samantha Baumgartner House: 18577 Masonic Fraser: February 29, 1996: Joachim Behrns House: 5297 Ten Mile Road Warren: June 21, 1990: William Austin Burt Information Site 4300 Main Park ...
The Dorothy H. Turkel House is a private residence located at 2760 West 7 Mile Road in north-central Detroit, Michigan, within the Palmer Woods neighborhood. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1956. [1] The Dorothy H. Turkel House is the only Wright-designed building within the city limits of Detroit. [1]
The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House is a mansion located at 1100 Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe Shores, northeast of Detroit, Michigan; it stands on the site known as "Gaukler Point", on the shore of Lake St. Clair. The house became the new residence of the Edsel and Eleanor Ford family in 1928.
An estimated 46 million people live within a 300-mile (480 km) radius of Metro Detroit. [10] [11] High-speed rail proposals between Chicago and Detroit and for the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor would further increase access to Metro Detroit.
Experts warn that Detroit could become the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. There are signs everywhere of just how far the city -- which is more than $14 billion in the hole -- has ...
The Beaubien House is built on the site of one of Detroit's original ribbon farms, owned by Antoine Beaubien. The farm had a quarter of a mile frontage on the river, but which ran nearly three miles inland. Beaubien was a Colonel in the Detroit Militia and received the patent certificate for his land in 1810. [3]
The East Grand Boulevard Historic District includes a few moderate-sized apartment buildings and numerous large homes. The apartment buildings in the district include the El Tovar Apartments, Saint Paul Manor Apartments, and Kingston Arms Apartments. Structures in this district were constructed primarily between 1900 and 1925. [3]