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The Rosa L. (McCauley) and Raymond Parks Flat, or simply the Rosa Parks Flat, is a two-story brick duplex located at 3201-3203 Virginia Park Street in Detroit, Michigan. The building is significant as the home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks , who lived in the first floor flat with her husband Raymond from 1961 to 1988.
The Alpha House is a two-story, rectangular brick building, built in a vernacular Craftsman style with a hipped roof and asymmetric facade. The front façade has a partial-width elevated front porch, surrounded by a low brick wall with Tuscan columns and capped with a hipped roof.
The Norwayne Historic District, or Norwayne Subdivision, is an historic residential subdivision, originally built for World War II defense workers. It is located in Westland, Michigan and roughly bounded by Palmer Road on the north, Wildwood Road on the west, Merriman Road on the east, and Glenwood Road and the Wayne County Lower Rouge Parkway on the south.
Front porches have their appeal and all-season sunrooms are glorious, but a screened in porch can simultaneously keep you from getting rained on while allowing your other senses to engage with a ...
This building was constructed in approximately 1890 for the John H. Parks Company Department Store. John H. Parks served as president of the village board and was the first mayor of Crystal Falls. Parks later turned his business into a hardware store, and in 1915, Tom Wills purchased the building for his hardware store. 61: Herman Rau House ...
S.S. Kresge Company / Metropolitan Center for High Technology, 2727 Second: This is a 5 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, brick and limestone Art Deco office building designed by Albert Kahn and built in 1928–30. Kresge used these offices until the firm moved to suburban Troy in 1972. [ 6 ]
The building's 660-foot-long (200 m) front porch [23] is promoted as the "longest in the world". [24] Visible to the east of the hotel is Michigan's second Governor's Mansion, which is used as a summer retreat for the state's chief executive. At this point, M-185 transitions back to the more developed portion of the island and the road name for ...
Michigan's first NHLs were designated on October 9, 1960, when three locations were chosen. The latest designation was made on January 13, 2021. Eleven Historic Landmarks in Michigan are more specifically designated National Historic Landmark Districts, meaning that they cover a large area rather than a single building. [4]