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Leland City Club, also known initially as Liedernacht, [1] is an American goth-industrial club in Detroit, Michigan. Founded by Mike Higgins [ 2 ] in 1983, it has become a staple of the city's alternative and electronic music [ 3 ] scene , hosting gothic, industrial, [ 4 ] techno , and house music .
The Detroit-Leland Hotel is a historic hotel located at 400 Bagley Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It is the oldest continuously operating hotel in downtown Detroit, [2] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1] The ballroom of the Detroit-Leland has hosted a nightclub, the Leland City Club, since 1983. [3]
The Detroit Association of Women's Clubs Building is a club headquarters located at 5461 Brush Street in Detroit, Michigan, in the East Ferry Avenue Historic District. Originally built for William Lennane, it became the headquarters of the Detroit Association of Women's Clubs in 1941.
They used the building until 1983, nearly the last example of the fur industry that helped found Detroit nearly 300 years earlier. [5] In 1988 the Law Firm of Patterson, Phifer, and Phillips hired Frank Z. Martin to refurbish the building. [5] Both L. B. King and Company and Annis Furs were prominent commercial firms in the history of Detroit. [2]
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 was the greatest manufacturing city in the world.” The Michigan Central Station train depot in November, 2011. For years, it stood as a haunting symbol of the city's decline and fall.
The City Club offered a number of classes and recreation programs for women, eventually enrolling over 8,000 members. [4] However, membership declined after World War II, [4] and in 1974 the club moved to smaller quarters. [3] The social space was used for various purposes, including a restaurant and bar in later years. [3]
John Kinzie (December 23, 1763 – June 6, 1828) was a fur trader from Quebec who first operated in Detroit and what became the Northwest Territory of the United States. A partner of William Burnett from Canada, about 1802-1803 Kinzie moved with his wife and child to Chicago , where they were among the first permanent white non-indigenous settlers.