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Eastern Market Historic District
The Eastern Market Historic District has long been the cen...
St. Albertus Catholic Church
St. Albertus Roman Catholic Church has played an important...
National Historic Landmark - Parke-Davis and Company Pharmaceutical Plant
Not every influential Detroit business has revolved around...
Pewabic Pottery
Pewabic Pottery was built in 1907 for ceramic artist Mary ...
Grosse Pointe High School
The construction of the Grosse Pointe High School in 1928 ...
National Historic Landmark - Cranbrook Educational Community
The idea for Cranbrook Educational Community, a unique 319...
Frederick C Robie House
In its May 1957 issue, House and Home magazine declared th...
Charles Hitchcock Hall
The Charles Hitchcock Hall was designed by Dwight H. Perki...
Wabash Avenue YMCA
The Wabash Avenue YMCA was a major social and educational ...
Chicago Bee Building
Confident in the vitality of the Black Metropolis of Chica...
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Eastern Market Historic District
The Eastern Market Historic District has long been the center of Detroit's German communities, and is the last of the three public markets that once served the city. The land on which Eastern Market is located was originally the Russell ...
St. Albertus Catholic Church
St. Albertus Roman Catholic Church has played an important role in the life of Detroit's Polish-American community for over 100 years. Designed to emphasize the Polish origins of its congregation and to set it apart from other churches in this ...
National Historic Landmark - Parke-Davis and Company Pharmaceutical Plant
Not every influential Detroit business has revolved around the automobile industry. Before the first car rolled out of a local factory, the Parke-Davis and Company Pharmaceutical Plant was home to one of the most important pharmaceutical firms--if not the most ...
Pewabic Pottery
Pewabic Pottery was built in 1907 for ceramic artist Mary Chase Perry. Concerned with raising the artistic standards of American ceramicists and influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, Perry enjoyed designing pottery pieces in simple shapes and used spectacular ...
Grosse Pointe High School
The construction of the Grosse Pointe High School in 1928 marked an important transition in the history of this area along the shores of Lake St. Clair. Grosse Pointe's move away from its farming community origins began after the Civil ...
National Historic Landmark - Cranbrook Educational Community
The idea for Cranbrook Educational Community, a unique 319-acre campus founded in 1904, originated with Detroit philanthropists George and Ellen Booth. George Booth, publisher of the Evening News Association, was also interested in architecture, worked in wrought iron design, and ...
Frederick C Robie House
In its May 1957 issue, House and Home magazine declared that "no house in America during the past hundred years matches the importance of Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House." Built in 1909, the Frederick C. Robie House stands as one ...
Charles Hitchcock Hall
The Charles Hitchcock Hall was designed by Dwight H. Perkins in 1901-1902 as a four-story dormitory for the University of Chicago. Significant in its contribution to the Prairie School movement, the medieval style building exhibits ornamentation detailing local flowers and ...
Wabash Avenue YMCA
The Wabash Avenue YMCA was a major social and educational center in the Black Metropolis, the center of Chicago's African American culture in the early 1900s. Funds for its construction came from Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company, ...
Chicago Bee Building
Confident in the vitality of the Black Metropolis of Chicago, entrepreneur Anthony Overton commissioned his second building in this commercial district for the offices of the Chicago Bee, an African American newspaper he founded in 1926. Ironically enough, soon after ...
