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Detroit River: Civic Center Drive: 1 Washington Boulevard Cobo Center: Convention center: 1960 modern: 5 Expanded 1989, 2012 (expected completion 2015) 2 Washington Boulevard Crowne Plaza Detroit Downtown Riverfront: Hotel 1965 Modern: 25 Stands on the site of Fort Pontchartrain and originally known as the Hotel Pontchartrain; a second tower ...
College for Creative Studies (CCS) is a private art school in Detroit, Michigan.It enrolls more than 1,400 students and focuses on arts education. The college is also active in offering art education to children through its Community Arts Partnerships program and its Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies.
The Lower Woodward Avenue Historic District, also known as Merchant's Row, is a mixed-use retail, commercial, and residential district in downtown Detroit, Michigan, located between Campus Martius Park and Grand Circus Park Historic District at 1201 through 1449 Woodward Avenue (two blocks between State Street to Clifford Street) and 1400 through 1456 Woodward Avenue (one block between Grand ...
The Bonstelle Theatre stands tall on 424 Woodward Ave. in Detroit on Wednesday, December 6, 2023. The theater is being restored, along with development of a new 10-story AC Hotel next door..
The Cultural Center Historic District is a historic district located in Detroit, Michigan, which includes the Art Center (or Cultural Center): the Detroit Public Library Main Branch, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Horace H. Rackham Education Memorial Building were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
Joseph Sutton, a teacher at Southeastern High School in Detroit, has been involved in the community for more than 30 years and supports building the art center.
The Gabriel Richard Building is a ten-and-a-half-story tall Chicago Style commercial building with Classical Revival decorative elements. The building is clad with white terra cotta, and has a tripartite overall design, with a two-and-a-half-story tall base, a six-story tall main section, and a two-story tall top with surmounting parapet wall.
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 ...