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May 28, 1976 (715 S. Calhoun St. Fort Wayne: 3: John H. Bass Mansion: John H. Bass Mansion: June 2, 1982 (2701 Spring St. Fort Wayne: 4: Becker House: Becker House
Fort Street Presbyterian Church† 631 West Fort Street Detroit: March 3, 1971: Fort Wayne† 6325 West Jefferson Avenue Detroit: February 19, 1958: Elizabeth Denison Forth Home Site: 328 Macomb Detroit: December 14, 1976: Fox Indian Massacre Informational Site Corner of Lake Point and Windmill Point roads Grosse Pointe Park: April 11, 1977 ...
Fort Wayne is Detroit's third fort. The first, Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit, was built by the French in 1701 near current day Hart Plaza.This fort, constructed shortly after Cadillac landed, was manned by the French until they surrendered it to the British in 1760 during the French and Indian War.
The property was sold by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend to the YWCA of Fort Wayne in the 1970s. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1] in 1978 the property was purchased by the Fort Wayne YWCA and housed the largest women's shelter in Indiana.
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.
Located in the Greektown district, the twelve-story Brutalist architecture building, designed by Eberle M. Smith, was completed in 1970 and is named for jurist and politician Frank Murphy, who was a Recorder's Court judge, Mayor of Detroit, Governor of Michigan, United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme ...
Each of the five court rooms has its own color scheme. Atop the building is a 255-foot (78 m)-high copper-clad domed rotunda, itself topped by a 14-foot (4.3 m) statue wind vane of Lady Liberty . The larger than life statue has feet that would wear a woman's shoe size of 28.
By the 1920s, Fort Wayne was an important city in the Midwest and consequently required federal services. Officials planned for a post office, federal office building, and federal courthouse. In 1928, Congress authorized funds for the acquisition of a site through the Public Buildings Act of 1926, which appropriated resources for federal ...