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Lafayette Park Detroit redevelopment over Black Bottom. Historically, this geographical area was the source of the River Savoyard, which was buried as a sewer in 1827. [11] The river's flooding produced rich bottomland soils, for which early French colonial settlers named the area "Black Bottom". [7]
The building stands atop what used to be the Savoyard Creek near its confluence with the Detroit River. In 1836, the creek was covered and turned into a sewer. The Savoyard Club occupied the 27th floor of the Buhl Building from 1928 until its membership dwindled and the club closed in 1994.
Savoyard Centre (1900), also known as State Savings Bank, is an office building at 151 West Fort Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site in 1981 [ 2 ] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [ 1 ]
Downtown Detroit — a neighborhood and the central business district of Detroit, on the Detroit River in southeast Michigan ... (Detroit) Savoyard Centre;
The Detroit River is an international river in North America.The river, which forms part of the border between the U.S. state of Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario, flows west and south for 24 nautical miles (44 km; 28 mi) from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie as a strait in the Great Lakes system.
The Mark W. Barker of the Interlake Steamship Company ran aground on Belle Isle in Detroit on Wednesday morning May 17, 2023. The Barker wasn't the only ship that ran aground in 2023.
DETROIT (AP) — Workers have linked the U.S. and Canadian sides of the new Gordie Howe International Bridge spanning the Detroit River, a major step in bringing the monumental project to completion.
For nearly a decade, Jenelle David, 44, of Grosse Pointe, joined her close friend to kayak once a week on the Detroit River through spring, summer and fall. Groups of mostly women also paddled the ...