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The Ransom Gillis House brought to Detroit the Venetian Gothic style, made popular by John Ruskin's book The Stones of Venice. [18] The centerpiece of the structure is the turret situated in the front left corner, the circumference of which is accented by five rows of tiles of simple geometric designs in hues of bright blue, red, yellow, and brown.
The construction of the Renaissance Center in Downtown Detroit marked a new era for the city's architecture. In the 1970s, Detroit Renaissance, chaired by Henry Ford II, commissioned highly regarded architect John Portman to design an enormous skyscraper complex called the Renaissance Center in hopes of increasing the attraction of city living ...
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 ...
American City: Detroit Architecture. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-3270-2. Savage, Rebecca Binno; Kowalski, Greg (2004). Art Deco in Detroit. Images of America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-3228-8. Sobocinski, Melanie Grunow (2005). Detroit and Rome: building on the past.
Style. Tech. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. ... For one Detroit photographer, it all started with the Beatles, Ed Sullivan and a Kodak camera.
The structures in this TR are diverse in age and architectural style. Broken into age and style, there are: three High Victorian Gothic churches (1859-1887) two Richardson Romanesque structures (with two others already on the Register) (1889-1896) two neo-classical synagogues (1902-1922) five Gothic style, central-plan churches (1909-1926)
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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 ...