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The Ransom Gillis House is a historic home located at 205 Alfred Street (formerly 63 Alfred prior to renumbering) [ 1 ] in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Brush Park district. It was designed by Henry T. Brush and George D. Mason and built between 1876 and 1878. The structure, unoccupied since the mid-1960s, was "mothballed" by the City ...
Michigan Central Station (MCS, also known as Michigan Central Depot) is the historic former main intercity passenger rail station in Detroit, Michigan.Built for the Michigan Central Railroad, it replaced the original depot in downtown Detroit, which had been shuttered after a major fire on December 26, 1913, forcing the still unfinished station into early service.
History of Detroit. From its beginnings as Fort Detroit, downtown Detroit was a major industrial center by the early twentieth century. Detroit, the largest city in the state of Michigan, was settled in 1701 by French colonists. It is the first European settlement above tidewater in North America. [ 1 ]
Click through the gallery below to see some of Bauman's haunting images of abandoned homes in Detroit, and visit his website for the project to see more. %Gallery-180627% See also:
Thomas M. Cooley High School is an abandoned high school located at the intersection of Hubbell Avenue and Chalfonte Street, on the northwest side of Detroit, Michigan. The three-story, Mediterranean Revival -style facility opened its doors on September 4, 1928. The school was named in honor of Thomas M. Cooley, a nineteenth-century jurist and ...
Brewster-Douglass Homes. Frederick Douglass tower in 2007. The Brewster Project and Frederick Douglass Apartments were built between 1935 and 1955. [3] They were designed by Harley, Ellington & Day of Detroit. The Brewster Project began construction in 1935, when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt broke ground for the 701-unit development.
Southwest Detroit Hospital is an abandoned hospital located in the Mexicantown neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan. It opened in 1973 as the first Detroit hospital to hire and accredit African American doctors and nurses, which was uncommon in the United States at that time. [3] The original hospital was only in existence for 17 years; in 1991 ...
Floor area. 26,274 sq ft (2,440.9 m 2) Design and construction. Architect (s) Van Leyen, Schilling & Keough. The former 6th Precinct 'McGraw Station' (also known as the Sixth Precinct, or McGraw Station) is a historic building located at 6840 McGraw Avenue, in Detroit, Michigan. The station served as the police station for the Detroit Police ...