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The Charles C. Trowbridge House is located at 1380 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It is the oldest documented building in the city of Detroit; [3] it was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1]
The Eighth Precinct Police Station is the second-oldest police building in Detroit. The station is made up of two, two-story structures with a single-story arcade between. The main building was used as office space while the other building was used as a garage. The building currently houses Phoenix Group Consultants. 37: El Tovar Apartments
Considered to be one of the oldest unaltered structures in Michigan. Charles Trowbridge House: Detroit: 1826 Residential Oldest documented building in the city of Detroit. [3] Musgrove Evans House: Tecumseh: 1826 Residential Oldest building in Lenawee County. Elmwood: Sault Ste. Marie: 1827 Indian Affairs Relocated and renovated in 1979 ...
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's history of skyscrapers began in 1889, with completion of the historic 10-story Hammond Building—considered the city's first steel-framed skyscraper. [3] It was followed by the Savings Bank Building in 1895, the Majestic Building in 1896, and the Union Trust Building in 1896.
Another old and long-vacant downtown Detroit theater, the United Artists Theatre, 150 Bagley St., was demolished in 2022 as part of a redevelopment of an old 18-story office building attached to ...
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.
Detroit's architecture is recognized as being among the finest in the U.S. Detroit has one of the largest surviving collections of late-19th- and early-20th-century buildings in the U.S. [3] Because of the city's economic difficulties, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has listed many of Detroit's skyscrapers and buildings as some of ...