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Lisa DiChiera, deputy director for the Detroit Historic Designation Advisory Board, brought up concerns with the project, and areas for improvement including flood mitigation and preserving the ...
The Friends were awarded historic designations for the theater on the state, federal and local levels. In March 2009, the city's Historic Designation Advisory Board unanimously voted to recommend that the City Council approve the designation. The Detroit City Council approved the formal local historic designation on Oct. 21, 2009.
United Sound Systems in May 2024. United Sound Systems is a recording studio and locally designated historic district in Detroit, Michigan, United States. [1] Many popular music artists over the last seventy years have recorded at the facility, including blues musicians like John Lee Hooker (he recorded "Boogie Chillen'" there in 1948), and funk bands like Parliament-Funkadelic.
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 ...
A unanimous vote by the Detroit City Council on July 25 had delayed the demolition, originally scheduled for last week, until September, to allow for review by the city’s historical advisory board.
The district was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The 13 original buildings were built between 1852 and 1911 and ...
The Grand Lodge of Michigan appears to have met at 535 Frederick Street during this time; in 1943 the Prince Hall Masons of Detroit purchased a building at 275 East Ferry Street, in what is now the East Ferry Avenue Historic District, to use as a meeting hall. The move to the Gratiot Avenue building, though, reflected the sophistication of ...
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