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The Charles C. Trowbridge House is located at 1380 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It is the oldest documented building in the city of Detroit; [3] it was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1]
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 ...
Considered to be one of the oldest unaltered structures in Michigan. Charles Trowbridge House: Detroit: 1826 Residential Oldest documented building in the city of Detroit. [3] Musgrove Evans House: Tecumseh: 1826 Residential Oldest building in Lenawee County. Elmwood: Sault Ste. Marie: 1827 Indian Affairs Relocated and renovated in 1979 ...
The Buildings of Detroit: A History. Wayne State University Press. Fisher, Dale (1996). Ann Arbor: Visions of the Eagle. Grass Lake, Michigan: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 0-9615623-4-X. Fisher, Dale (2003). Building Michigan: A Tribute to Michigan's Construction Industry. Grass Lake, Michigan: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 1-891143 ...
Ste. Anne de Détroit, founded 1701, is the second oldest continuously operating Catholic parish in the United States; it was the first building erected in Detroit. [ 5 ] The main business was trading furs with the Native Americans, using goods supplied from Montreal. [ 15 ]
Another old and long-vacant downtown Detroit theater, the United Artists Theatre, 150 Bagley St., was demolished in 2022 as part of a redevelopment of an old 18-story office building attached to ...
Corktown is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan.It is the oldest extant neighborhood in the city. [2] [3] The current boundaries of the district include I-75 to the north, the John C. Lodge Freeway (The Lodge) to the east, Bagley and Porter streets to the south, and Rosa Parks Boulevard (12th Street) to the west. [1]
Much has changed since that now-famous day in Detroit history: for downtown in general, for the old Hudson's site especially and for the Birmingham-based firm McIntosh Poris Architects, which this ...