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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 ...
Detroit Institute of Arts: Art museum: 1927, 1966, 1971, 2007 Beaux-Arts, Renaissance Revival 5? Second-largest municipally-owned museum in the United States 5201 Woodward Avenue Detroit Public Library: Library: 1921, 1963 Renaissance Revival, International 5 Kirby Street: 5401 Woodward Avenue Detroit Historical Museum: museum 1951 International 4
Detroit Institute of Arts. This list of museums in Michigan encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
David Whitney Jr., c. 1891. David Whitney Jr. was born in 1830 in Watertown, Massachusetts. [8] Whitney made his millions in Massachusetts as a lumber baron. He moved to Detroit from Lowell (where he had established himself as a lumber baron) in 1857, at the young age of twenty-seven.
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 ...
The Detroit Public Library is also a founding member of the Detroit Area Library Network. The network initially ran the Integrated Library System (online library catalog) for the library, but the library later purchased its own servers, after the mainframe computer era began to wane, and the library now runs its own systems.
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The Cass Park Historic District is a historic district in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, consisting of 25 buildings along the streets of Temple, Ledyard, and 2nd, surrounding Cass Park. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 [1] and designated a city of Detroit historic district in 2016. [3]