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As the automotive industry brought a population boom to the city of Detroit, demand for housing increased substantially. In response, apartment buildings were constructed that were larger scale, high density buildings, with many smaller and more utilitarian apartments to appeal to the primarily middle-class workers looking for housing.
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 ...
Atkinson Avenue Historic District in Detroit. Pictured is the block of Atkinson between Byron Avenue and Woodrow Wilson Avenue, looking toward the west. Photographed in 2007. Atkinson Avenue is an east–west street located in the geographic heart of the city of Detroit, Michigan. The historic district had 225 houses in 2010. [1]
The mural was commissioned as part of the 2023 Street Art for Mankind project, plagued with problems at City Hall because the artists hired weren't local, resulting in protest across the Detroit ...
The Schaap Center for Performing Arts, which is being built in Grosse Pointe Park at its western border with Detroit, has caused quite a ruckus, including a lawsuit earlier this year and a ...
The New Amsterdam Historic District was recognized by both the National Register of Historic Places and the City of Detroit [2] as a historic district in 2001. Specific buildings in the general area are included in the designation; these buildings are located at 435 and 450 Amsterdam Street, 41-47, and 440 Burroughs Street, 5911-5919 and 6050-6160 Cass Avenue, 6100-6200 Second Avenue, and 425 ...
The curator of contemporary art at the Detroit Institute of Arts from 1968 until 1971, Sam Wagstaff, was influenced the formation of the movement. [ 13 ] In 1980, a keystone exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Kick Out the Jams: Detroit’s Cass Corridor, 1963–1977 , was organized by curators Mary Jane Jacob and Jay Belloli and ...
Part of the Orchestra Place Complex, which includes the 6-floor Detroit School of Arts. Houses offices for the University of Michigan Detroit Centre, Detroit Medical Centre, and Detroit School of Arts. Parsons Street: 3711 Woodward Avenue Orchestra Hall (Max M. Fisher Music Center) Concert hall: 1919, 2003 Italianate, Modern 4