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Part of the Orchestra Place Complex, which includes the 6-floor Detroit School of Arts. 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
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 ...
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 ...
Detroit Free Press Building: newspaper 1924 Art Deco: 16 Connected via a walkway on the third and fourth floors to the adjacent Detroit Club: West Lafayette Boulevard: 1020 Washington Boulevard Holiday Inn Express Detroit - Downtown: Hotel 1965 Modern: 17 Stands at the site of "219 Michigan Avenue", one of Detroit's first high-rise skyscrapers.
Last week, the White House announced its new plan to increase corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. In a strange turn of events, the same American automakers ...
The automotive boom in the city increased the pressure for office space, and development began to spill north from Grand Circus Park up Park Avenue. [3] In 1922, Albert Kahn designed the Park Avenue Building, located at the entrance to Park Avenue (but included in the neighboring Grand Circus Park Historic District). Other architects and ...
First and Second Williams Blocks, 16-30 and 32-34 Monroe, 1908. Second Williams Block, 16-30 Monroe Avenue, 1989. John Constantine Williams, a member of one of Detroit's wealthiest mid-19th-century families and son of John R. Williams, [8] built this structure in 1872–73, directly adjacent to his earlier structure (the first Williams block) at 32-42 Monroe. [12]
The east necklace of downtown links Grand Circus and the stadium area to Greektown along Broadway. The east necklace contains a sub-district sometimes called the Harmonie Park District in the Broadway Avenue Historic District which has taken on the legacy of Detroit's music from the 1930s through the 1950s and into the present. [4]