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The Detroit Eight Mile Wall, also referred to as Detroit's Wailing Wall, Berlin Wall or The Birwood Wall, is a one-foot-thick (0.30 m), six-foot-high (1.8 m) separation wall that stretches about 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) in length. 1 foot (0.30 m) is buried in the ground and the remaining 5 feet (1.5 m) is visible to the community.
Photographer Kevin Bauman has more than enough proof of Detroit's spiraling financial crisis: He has 100 pictures. Bauman's "100 Abandoned Houses" project documents the continued degradation of ...
The area that became Highland Park began as a small farming community, on a large ridge at what is now Woodward Avenue and Highland, six miles (9.7 km) north of Detroit. In 1818, prominent Detroit judge Augustus B. Woodward bought the ridge, and platted the village of Woodwardville in 1825. The development of the village failed.
This house is a relatively rare example of residential Italianate architecture in Detroit. [48] It was originally built for eye doctor John F. Terry, but in 1871 was sold to Lyman Cochrane. [ 49 ] Cochrane was a state senator and Superior Court Judge, [ 50 ] serving in this capacity until his death in 1879.
The Eight Mile-Wyoming area historically represented an empowering area for Black home development and ownership in the 1920s and 1930s. Horace White, a leading Detroit minister and the first black member of the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC), states it represented an important place of black settlement "because it was their one opportunity, as they saw it, to own their own homes and rear ...
The house now stands boarded up, abandoned, and empty. ... 14 haunting photos of abandoned palaces and castles around the world. A Detroit man bought an abandoned house in the city for $2,100 and ...
8: John N. Bagley House: John N. Bagley House: October 9, 1985 : 2921 E. Jefferson Ave. Jefferson Corridor: This two-and-one-half-story structure is still one of the finest of Detroit's Richardsonian Romanesque houses. Built of dark brick and brown stone, it has a massive gable roof and a tower with conical roof.
After 40 years, the former stadium of the Detroit Lions will be torn down this spring, according to The Detroit News. Haunting photos show how run-down the abandoned Detroit Lions stadium has ...