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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 ...
The Detroit Almanac. Detroit Free Press. ISBN 0-937247-34-0. Hauser, Michael & Marianne Weldon (2006). Downtown Detroit's Movie Palaces (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-4102-8. Hill, Eric J. & John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press.
The Birwood Wall is a six-foot-high (1.8 m) separation wall that was constructed in 1941 to physically separate Black and White homeowners on the sole basis of race. 11: Boston-Edison Historic District: Boston-Edison Historic District: September 5, 1975 : Roughly bounded by Edison St., Woodward and Linwood Aves. and Glynn Ct.
The Rosa Parks Bus is the public transportation vehicle where Parks, a Black seamstress and dedicated activist, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955.
Tourist attractions in Detroit (12 C, 37 P) H. The Henry Ford (8 P) Huron–Clinton Metroparks (14 P) N. National Historic Landmarks in Metro Detroit (1 C, 18 P) P.
Carver Hotel, 87-89 Canfield (1926) The Carver was built in 1926 for white clients, but by the 1950s catered to a black clientele. The Carver also contained a restaurant on the ground floor. This is a four-story brick Renaissance Revival hotel contains four rectangular sections connected by a spine. The front facade has five arches at ground ...
Detroit Free Press Building: newspaper 1924 Art Deco: 16 Connected via a walkway on the third and fourth floors to the adjacent Detroit Club: West Lafayette Boulevard: 1020 Washington Boulevard Holiday Inn Express Detroit - Downtown: Hotel 1965 Modern: 17 Stands at the site of "219 Michigan Avenue", one of Detroit's first high-rise skyscrapers.
The majority of NRHP properties in Wayne County are in Detroit. These properties represent over a century's worth of the city's growth, from the Charles Trowbridge House (built in 1826, and the oldest known structure in the city) to structures in the Detroit Financial District built in the late 1950s and early 1960s.