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  2. National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown and ...

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    Automobile wealth led to a boom in downtown Detroit business, and the construction of a collection of early-20th-century skyscrapers. The most notable of these is the Art Deco National Historic Landmark Guardian Building (1928), but numerous other significant office buildings such as the Vinton Building (1916), the Barlum Tower (1927), and the ...

  3. National Register of Historic Places listings in Detroit

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    Automobile wealth led to a boom in downtown Detroit business, and the construction of a collection of early-20th-century skyscrapers. The most notable of these is the Art Deco National Historic Landmark Guardian Building (1928), but numerous other significant office buildings such as the Vinton Building (1916), the Barlum Tower (1927), and the ...

  4. Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects - Wikipedia

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    Between 1910 and 1940 Detroit, Michigan's African American population increased dramatically. In 1935, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt broke ground for the Brewster Homes, the nation’s first federally funded public housing development for African Americans. The homes opened in 1938 with 701 units.

  5. File:C. 1940 Color 8mm Footage of Metro Detroit.webm

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    English: Silent 8mm film containing footage shot in and around Detroit, including footage of Belle Isle, the Detroit River, Henry Ford Museum, the Detroit Zoo, White Chapel Memorial Park Cemetery in Troy, several houses of worship along Woodward Avenue, the New Center area, the Brewster Homes, Black Bottom, and downtown.

  6. Category : Buildings and structures completed in 1940

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    1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; Subcategories. This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total. ... Monolith (building) Monumento a la ...

  7. Building in Detroit's historic Chinatown demolished, to the ...

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    The building at 3143 Cass Avenue in Detroit’s historic Chinatown was demolished after a last-ditch attempt by the City Council and locals to save it failed.

  8. History of Detroit - Wikipedia

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    Although many people began to pile into Detroit, Thomas Sugrue, author of "The Origins of the Urban Crisis", suggests, "Beginning in the 1920s—and certainly by the 1940s—class and race became more important than ethnicity as a guide to the city's residential geography." Whitney Building and Detroit Statler Hotel, 1910s

  9. Timeline of Detroit - Wikipedia

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    This was significant in the birth of Detroit as the center of the American automobile industry, something that became huge in the city's economy and overall identity. 1912 Navin Field (baseball park) opens. Dime Building constructed. 1913 1913 Studebaker strike; Broadway-Strand Theatre in business. [21] 1914 - Detroit Institute of Musical Arts ...