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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 ...
The northern area includes the Detroit Golf Club and neighborhoods which surround the main campus of the University of Detroit Mercy: [1] Pilgrim Village; Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District; and the Palmer Woods Historic District. Pilgrim Village, developed in the 1920s, is bounded by Livernois, Idaho, Puritan and Fenkell.
Woodbridge is a historic neighborhood of primarily Victorian homes located in Detroit, Michigan.The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, with later boundary increases in 1997 and 2008. [1]
The area around the West Canfield Historic District was once owned by Lewis Cass, an early governor of Michigan. [4] When he died in 1866, his two daughters inherited his holdings. [5] Three years later, they divided the property, with Cass's daughter Mary receiving the portion where the West Canfield Historic District is now located. [5]
[46] Using the Detroit Board of Education's Detroit City Census, Beynon concluded that in 1925, 45.46% of Detroit's Hungarian population lived in Delray. [42] Using a list of Hungarian surnames in the Detroit City Directory published by the company Polk, Beynon concluded that 44.27% of the Hungarians lived in the Delray colony and 55.72% lived ...
There are plenty of places that offer Detroit-style-pizza in metro Detroit. Here's a sampling: Belle Isle Pizza, 7869 E. Jefferson, Detroit; 313-331-1222 or belleislepizza.com. Cloverleaf Pizza, 8 ...
The president and CEO is set to be in metro Detroit on Thursday — just missing 313 Day, you know, March 13 — for a groundbreaking ceremony at 33380 Wick Road, where the state’s first Sheetz ...
Lafayette Park is a neighborhood located east of Downtown Detroit.It contains a residential area of some 4,900 people and covers 0.37 sq mi. The northern section, planned and partially built in the 1950s by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places; [1] it was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2015.