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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.
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.
These structures are distinguished by their relatively modest appearance, although at the time of their construction they were fashionable homes housing prominent Detroit citizens. The second group includes the single-family residences built by wealthy Detroiters in the latter part of the 19th century and in the early 20th century.
1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; Subcategories. This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total. ... Monolith (building) Monumento a la ...
School buildings completed in the 1940s (10 C, 1 P) Sports venues completed in the 1940s (10 C, 1 P) T. Towers completed in the 1940s (11 C)
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
The Buildings of Detroit: A History. Wayne State University Press. Fisher, Dale (1996). Ann Arbor: Visions of the Eagle. Grass Lake, Michigan: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 0-9615623-4-X. Fisher, Dale (2003). Building Michigan: A Tribute to Michigan's Construction Industry. Grass Lake, Michigan: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 1-891143 ...
Detroit's population reaches its height at 1.85 million. [12] 1951 - Detroit celebrates its 250th anniversary with exhibitions, parades, lectures, entertainments, historical publications, new building construction and more. 1954 - City-County Building constructed. 1955 Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory on Belle Isle active. [23]