Results for L
Dunbar Hospital
Dunbar Hospital, the first hospital in Detroit for blacks,...
Cultural Center Historic District
The Cultural Center Historic District is, as its name asse...
Cathedral Church of St. Paul
St. Paul's Cathedral stands today as one of the first and ...
West Canfield Historic District
The upper middle-class Victorian homes that comprise the W...
Elwood Bar
Designed by Detroit architect Charles Noble, and built in ...
Fox Theatre Building
Built in 1928 by internationally known theater architect H...
Women's City Club
The Women's City Club documents the growth of women's orga...
The Guardian Building
The Guardian Building documents the booming, modern city D...
Miles van der Rohe Residential District
The Mies van der Rohe Residential District is both an outs...
St. Albertus Catholic Church
St. Albertus Roman Catholic Church has played an important...
Results for L
Dunbar Hospital
Dunbar Hospital, the first hospital in Detroit for blacks, illustrates some of Detroit's most important developments over the past century. Designed in the Romanesque Revival style, this two-and-a-half story brick and ashlar building began as the home of real estate ...
Cultural Center Historic District
The Cultural Center Historic District is, as its name asserts, the heart of Detroit's intellectual and artistic life. Straddling Woodward Avenue, the district is formed by three early 20th century buildings: on the east side stands the Detroit Public Library; ...
Cathedral Church of St. Paul
St. Paul's Cathedral stands today as one of the first and finest examples of the Late Gothic Revival, an architectural style popular in the early years of the 20th century. "Gothic Revival" architecture, imported from England in the 1830s, gave ...
West Canfield Historic District
The upper middle-class Victorian homes that comprise the West Canfield Historic District date back to the 1870s when Detroit's burgeoning population began pushing at the edges of the city's original boundaries. Located some two miles from Detroit's central business district, ...
Elwood Bar
Designed by Detroit architect Charles Noble, and built in 1936, the well preserved Elwood Bar is the best known small-scale example of the streamlined Art Moderne style in Detroit. A one-story, flat-roofed structure located at the northern edge of the ...
Fox Theatre Building
Built in 1928 by internationally known theater architect Howard Crane, the Fox Theatre Building seats over 5,000 people and is Detroit's largest movie palace. The movie palace is surrounded by a U-shaped ten-story, steel-frame office building that is sheathed in ...
Women's City Club
The Women's City Club documents the growth of women's organizations in the 20th century. Although often ridiculed at the time as busybodies, female reformers and activists became increasingly influential after the Civil War. Their growing importance became particularly apparent in ...
The Guardian Building
The Guardian Building documents the booming, modern city Detroit had become in the 1920s. Though Detroit was already an important manufacturing center at the turn of the century, the success of the auto industry after World War I drove an ...
Miles van der Rohe Residential District
The Mies van der Rohe Residential District is both an outstanding example of Modernist architecture and one of America's most successful post-World War II urban redevelopment projects. Its 46 acres encompasses three distinct but carefully connected sections: on the western ...
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 ...
