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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 ...
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 building and structure stubs (57 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Detroit" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
Modernism started slow in Detroit, but now modern buildings are proliferating.
The Mediterranean-style building dates to 1902 and was the boat club's home for decades until 1996, when the city of Detroit evicted the club for nonpayment of rent and taxes, according to Free ...
Mothballing is ultimately what saved dilapidated downtown buildings as the Book Cadillac hotel, the Metropolitan Building at 33 John R and the iconic Michigan Central Station until Detroit's ...
The Michigan Avenue Historic Commercial District in Detroit is a group of commercial buildings located along the south side of two blocks of Michigan Avenue, from 3301–3461. This section of buildings is the most intact collection along this stretch of Detroit's Michigan Avenue. [ 2 ]
The Coleman A. Young Municipal Center is owned and operated by the Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority, which was created in 1948 by the Michigan Legislature. [2] The building contains a library, a courthouse, and the city hall. When it opened, the City-County Building replaced both the historic Detroit City Hall and Wayne County Building.