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The Players Club of Detroit was founded in 1910 by a group of local Detroit businessmen as an institution to encourage amateur theater. In 1925, Players Club member William E. Kapp designed an elaborately decorated two-story building to permanently house the club. It was constructed of what was, at the time, a novel material: cinder blocks.
The Friends were awarded historic designations for the theater on the state, federal and local levels. In March 2009, the city's Historic Designation Advisory Board unanimously voted to recommend that the City Council approve the designation. The Detroit City Council approved the formal local historic designation on Oct. 21, 2009.
The Detroit Historic District Commission approved the continued construction of the Schaap Center for Performing Arts 6-0. ... deputy director for the Detroit Historic Designation Advisory Board ...
United Sound Systems in May 2024. United Sound Systems is a recording studio and locally designated historic district in Detroit, Michigan, United States. [1] Many popular music artists over the last seventy years have recorded at the facility, including blues musicians like John Lee Hooker (he recorded "Boogie Chillen'" there in 1948), and funk bands like Parliament-Funkadelic.
A unanimous vote by the Detroit City Council on July 25 had delayed the demolition, originally scheduled for last week, until September, to allow for review by the city’s historical advisory board.
The Grand Lodge of Michigan appears to have met at 535 Frederick Street during this time; in 1943 the Prince Hall Masons of Detroit purchased a building at 275 East Ferry Street, in what is now the East Ferry Avenue Historic District, to use as a meeting hall. The move to the Gratiot Avenue building, though, reflected the sophistication of ...
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Warren–Prentis Historic District; Washington Boulevard Historic District; Wayne State University Buildings; West Canfield Historic District; West Vernor–Junction Historic District; West Vernor–Lawndale Historic District; West Vernor–Springwells Historic District; West Village, Detroit; Willis–Selden Historic District; Woodbridge, Detroit