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Name Image Location Summary Bricktown Historic District Separates the Renaissance Center from Greektown.: Bricktown separates the Renaissance Center from Greektown. [citation needed] Bricktown is home to St. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church, the oldest standing church in Detroit, and the Italian Renaissance style Wayne County Building (which was saved from demolition in the early 1980s).
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 ...
The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation was established in 2015 to lead regeneration and planning work for an area covering Old Oak Common and much of the Park Royal area. The combined redevelopment area is envisaged to provide 65,000 new jobs and 25,000 new homes. [ 13 ]
Some have paid well over $500,000 for homes — even $1 million-plus in instances — while others pay market-rate rents that can exceed $1,800 a month for one-bedroom apartments and $2,400 for ...
As Detroit grew and city services expanded, Jefferson was one of the first streets to obtain new installations, getting iron water pipes in 1838, a horse-drawn bus line in 1847, horse-drawn rail in 1863, electric arc lighting in 1883, and asphalt pavement in 1892.
District location and boundary. The Rosedale Park Historic District is residential in character. [3] Primary streets run north-south, and major stone piers mark the primary entrances into the neighborhood. [3] Traffic islands are placed in the center of many of the streets. Oak and maple trees, some planted in the 1910s and 1920s, line the ...
Historic photos of Michigan Central Station show heyday of old Detroit train depot. Gannett. Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press. June 4, 2024 at 3:00 AM.
Palmer Park is within the Detroit Public Schools district. Residents are zoned to Palmer Park Preparatory Academy, formerly the Barbara Jordan School, [ 8 ] for elementary and middle school. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] All residents are zoned to Mumford High School . [ 11 ]