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  2. Michigan State Capitol - Wikipedia

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    After a state convention first rejected this condition, a second convention, assembled under some duress in December 1836, reluctantly accepted the terms and Michigan became the 26th state on January 26, 1837, with Detroit as its first capital. The first building to serve as the State Capitol was built in 1832 as the Territorial Courthouse. The ...

  3. Elijah E. Myers - Wikipedia

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    Elijah E. Myers (December 29, 1832 – March 5, 1909) was a leading architect of government buildings in the latter half of the 19th century, and the only architect to design the capitol buildings of three U.S. states, the Michigan State Capitol, the Texas State Capitol, and the Colorado State Capitol. [1]

  4. List of tallest buildings in Michigan - Wikipedia

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    David Broderick Tower: Detroit 1928 35 369 / 113 23 211 West Fort Street: Detroit ... First Michigan State Capitol: Capitol Park, Detroit, MI: 1828–1866: 140 / 43: 2

  5. Architecture of metropolitan Detroit - Wikipedia

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    Neoclassical Chrysler House (1912) by Daniel Burnham in the Detroit Financial District. In the 1880s, Gilded Age architects such as Wilson Eyre [7] Gordon Lloyd, Harry J. Rill, Henry T Brush, Julius Hess, John V Smith, Elijah E Myers, Alamon C Varney, Mortimer L Smith, Peter Dederich, Joseph e MiIls and the firms Donaldson & Meier, Malcomson & Higginbotham and Mason & Rice who had designed ...

  6. List of tallest buildings in Detroit - Wikipedia

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    C. ^ The capitol of Michigan was relocated to Lansing in 1847, and the original capitol building was destroyed in a fire in 1893. D. ^ This building was destroyed in 1961. E. ^ a b St. Joseph Church, completed in 1873, tied the height of the Detroit City Hall. The city therefore had two tallest buildings for a period of 4 years, until the Fort ...

  7. Timeline of Detroit - Wikipedia

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    1871 - Detroit City Hall built. [3] 1872 - Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument unveiled. [3] 1877 - Detroit College (now the University of Detroit Mercy and U of D Jesuit HS) is founded by the Society of Jesus. [3] 1879 - Belle Isle becomes part of city. [3] 1880 - Population: 116,340. [12] 1881 - Future industrialist William Boeing born ...

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  9. Detroit - Wikipedia

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    Detroit (/ d ɪ ˈ t r ɔɪ t / ⓘ dih-TROYT, locally also / ˈ d iː t r ɔɪ t / DEE-troyt) [8] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the largest U.S. city on the Canadian border and the county seat of Wayne County. Detroit had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 census, [9] making it the 26th-most populous city in ...