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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...
Fort Street Presbyterian Church
The Fort Street Presbyterian Church represents an im...
The Guardian Building
The Guardian Building documents the booming, modern city D...
Second Baptist Church
The Second Baptist Church, constructed in 1914 to replace ...
St. Albertus Catholic Church
St. Albertus Roman Catholic Church has played an important...
Belle Isle
Known as Wah-na-be-zee(Swan Island) to the Chippewa and Ot...
Pewabic Pottery
Pewabic Pottery was built in 1907 for ceramic artist Mary ...
National Historic Landmark - Cranbrook Educational Community
The idea for Cranbrook Educational Community, a unique 319...
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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 ...
Fort Street Presbyterian Church
The Fort Street Presbyterian Church represents an important step in the evolution of American 19th century "revivalist" architecture. In the 18th century, leading figures like Thomas Jefferson advocated an architecture for America derived from the design ideals of classical Greece ...
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 ...
Second Baptist Church
The Second Baptist Church, constructed in 1914 to replace the original church building, houses Michigan's first African American congregation. The church was established in 1836, when 13 former slaves decided to leave the First Baptist Church because of its discriminatory ...
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 ...
Belle Isle
Known as Wah-na-be-zee(Swan Island) to the Chippewa and Ottawa Native American tribes, today Belle Isle reflects the late 19th century movement to create metropolitan parks begun in Paris and emulated in America by landscape architects like Frederic Law Olmsted. Ownership ...
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 ...
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 ...
