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Statue amidst the north gardens at Middleton Place. Williams Middleton's daughter, Elizabeth, inherited Middleton Place in 1900, and made minor restorations. Upon her death in 1915, she left the plantation to her cousin, John Julius Pringle Smith (Smith was a great-great-great-grandson of Henry Middleton). Smith and his wife, Heningham, used ...
With $125,000 in donations from Detroit's Dossin family, and a matching subsidy by the city's historical commission, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum broke ground on Belle Isle on May 21, 1959, near the former mooring of the J. T. Wing. It was opened on July 24, 1961. [2] William Edward Kapp was the lead architect for the firm of Smith, Hinchman ...
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.
Eleazar-Yisrael Smith, 10, left, is part of the "Stories in Stereo" exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum as his father Emmanuel Smith, 43, has an installation right next door. The two were ...
Kresge store merchandise sits in a display for the Kresge at 100 exhibition at the Detroit Historical Museum in Detroit on Thu., May 2, 2024. “We’d been doing things kind of the same way for ...
The Michigan Wildlife Gallery on the third floor displays exhibits on birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, plants, and fungi native to the Great Lakes. There are taxidermy specimens, exhibits on habitats, and displays about regional environmental problems. A mastodon trackway, the largest on display in the world, is part of this exhibit.
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) takes a bold new step with a special exhibition by native Detroiter Tiff Massey. The spectacular “Tiff Massey: 7 Mile + Livernois,” opening Sunday, is the ...
The sack was displayed at Middleton Place (a former slave plantation in South Carolina, now a museum) and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, until 2021. Miles investigated the history of Rose and Ashley and used research by anthropologist Mark Auslander to likely identify them as living on the estate ...