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Women Strike for Peace attempted to hold a women-only picket at the Hilton Hotel, the main delegate hotel. Despite plans for buses from around the country to bring hundreds of picketers, only 60 or so women showed up. [28] At 10:30 p.m., the Yippies had built a bonfire near the southern area of Lincoln Park, and armed police soon confronted ...
The Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building is a class-A skyscraper located at 477 Michigan Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, designed by the Detroit architectural firm of Smith, Hinchman and Grylls. It opened in 1976 to consolidate the offices of federal agencies which were scattered in several locations in the area.
Eyewitness accounts place the battle on the lake shore somewhere between 1 and 2 miles (1.6 and 3.2 km) south of Fort Dearborn. [40] Heald's official report said the battle occurred 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) south of the fort, [21] placing the battle at what is now the intersection of Roosevelt Road (12th Street) and Michigan Avenue. [40]
The Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is a Civil War monument located in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.This example of civic sculpture stands in a prominent location on the southeast tip of Campus Martius Park, where five principal thoroughfares—Michigan Avenue, Monroe Street, Cadillac Square, Fort Street, and Woodward Avenue—convene on the reconstructed traffic circle in front of One ...
The Magnificent Mile (also The Mag Mile) is a section of Michigan Avenue in Chicago devoted to retail, dining, hotels and tourist attractions. Running from the Chicago River to Oak Street in the Near North Side, [1] the district is located one block east of Rush Street and is the main retail corridor between the Loop and Gold Coast. [2]
Michigan Avenue may refer to: Michigan Avenue (Chicago) Michigan Avenue (Michigan), a designation for much of both current and former U.S. Route 12 in Michigan; Michigan Avenue (Lansing, Michigan), a street through the State Capitol area, a portion of which is M-143; Michigan Avenue station, a station on the Detroit People Mover
Originally built in 1913, Michigan Central Station was designed by the same architectural firms that worked on New York City’s Grand Central Station. The building had 10 gates for trains, and ...
The location of the site is bounded by North Dixie Highway, the River Raisin, Detroit Avenue, and Mason Run Creek. [3] [8] The Battle of Frenchtown is so named because it took place in and surrounding the Frenchtown Settlement (1784), on the River Raisin's north bank and within the present-day city limits of Monroe. [9]