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The Children's Library and H.Y.P.E. Teen Center are located in different rooms of Main Branch. [4] Currently, the H.Y.P.E. Teen Center is located in the original 1921 Children's Room, and the Children's Library is located in the Children's Room, an area built during the 1963 addition. [1]
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Michigan Science Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit are also located in the Art Center area. Substantial residential areas, including the East Ferry Avenue Historic District and late-19th century homes to the east of the Detroit Institute of Art. These neighborhoods ...
Houses offices for the University of Michigan Detroit Centre, Detroit Medical Centre, and Detroit School of Arts. Parsons Street: 3711 Woodward Avenue Orchestra Hall (Max M. Fisher Music Center) Concert hall: 1919, 2003 Italianate, Modern 4 Home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra: 3800 Woodward Avenue Professional Plaza Tower: Apartment building ...
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 ...
Later on in college, my first year at Wayne State, we were assigned a group project to research and write about an icon of Detroit that we felt represented the city, I suggested Michigan Central.
A stand-alone public library in Detroit dates back to 1865. [4] An 1842 state law requiring the Detroit Board of Education to open a library resulted in a public reading room opening on March 25, 1865, in the old Capitol High School at State and Griswold Street.
Remember the medieval-style castle complete with a moat and drawbridge that went up for sale in Oakland Township back in 2022? Well, it's still for sale. And the price recently dropped by $200,000.
Southeast Michigan: Hall of fame: Hall of fame for drivers on land, sea and air, museum features Indy Cars, stock cars, sports cars, dragsters, race trucks and openwheelers Motown Museum: Detroit: Wayne: Southeast Michigan: Music: Also known as Hitsville U.S.A., dedicated to the legacy of the Motown Records, its artists and music