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  2. Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects - Wikipedia

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    It was located in the Brush Park section on the east side of Detroit, Michigan, United States, near the Chrysler Freeway, Mack Avenue and St. Antoine Street. The housing project is named after Brewster Street, which ran through the area, and Frederick Douglass, African American abolitionist, author, and reformer. It was demolished in phases ...

  3. National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown and ...

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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 ...

  4. Planning and development in Detroit - Wikipedia

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    On March 14, 2016, the Michigan Humane Society opened its new and expanded $15.5 million animal care campus on five acres, which includes a 35,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art veterinary facility, located just east of New Center at 7887 Chrysler Drive near Clay Street. The society said the larger facility will enable it to expand its teaching ...

  5. Pair of historic properties in downtown Wilmington go up for sale

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  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Detroit

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    A sixth main street, Fort, wanders downriver from the center of the city. After Detroit rebuilt in the early 19th century, a thriving community soon sprang up, and by the Civil War, over 45,000 people were living in the city, [4] primarily spread along Jefferson Avenue to the east and Fort Street to the west. As in many major American cities ...

  7. Brush Park - Wikipedia

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    Mercy Hospital was the first black-owned hospital in Detroit; founded by Dr. David Northcross in 1917, it was originally located at 248 Winder Street, and later relocated to 668 Winder. [ 18 ] [ 29 ] The Great Depression and the racial tensions of the 1940s (part of the 1943 race riot took place in the streets of Brush Park) [ 27 ] led to a ...

  8. Three historic Providence homes are under threat of ... - AOL

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    The houses – 209, 211 and 217 Angell Street, all of them in the College Hill Historic District – have been a longtime source of concern for East Siders worried about plans for a hotel that ...

  9. List of historical societies in Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Ada Historical Society [Wikidata]; Albion Historical Society [Wikidata]; Alcona Historical Society; Alfred Noble Historical Society [Wikidata]; Alger County Historical Society