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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 ...
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1921 photo with Alvan Macauley - Detroit Public Library; 1920-1923 Packard photo - Detroit Public Library; 1956 factory photo - Detroit Public Library "Largest Abandoned Factory in the World: The Packard Factory, Detroit." Sometimes Interesting. 15 Aug 2011; Detroit News; The Abandoned Packard Plant at Detroiturbex.com; Packard Plant photos
The unfinished building began operating as Detroit's main passenger depot in 1913; it was constructed as part of a much larger project that involved the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel below the Detroit River for freight and passengers. The building was used for rail service until 1988, and is now abandoned. 96: Pewabic Pottery: Pewabic Pottery
Despite these attempts to save what was left of the neighborhood's historic character, by the 1980s Brush Park had gradually fallen into a state of "nearly total abandonment and disintegration," [5] gaining a poor reputation as one of Detroit's most derelict areas. Abandoned buildings became targets for vandals and arsonists: as a result ...
Here are Detroit buildings brought back to life. ... The Eddystone is a once-abandoned, 13-story former hotel situated just north of the new Little Caesars' Arena dates back to 1924.
Demolition of the remaining buildings of the Frederick Douglass Homes began in September 2013. [9] Demolition was substantially complete by the end of August 2014. From historic marker on the site of Brewster Homes. Between 1910 and 1940 Detroit, Michigan's African American population increased dramatically. In 1935, First Lady Eleanor ...
The recreation center officially closed it doors for good on August 25, 2006. Less than three years later the building was vacant and abandoned. [1] In the following years the abandoned building became home to a large homeless population. Metal thieves also ravaged the building for scraps as graffiti artists used the building as a blank canvas.