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The Detroit Industry Murals (1932–1933) are a series of frescoes by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, consisting of twenty-seven panels depicting industry at the Ford Motor Company and in Detroit. Together they surround the interior Rivera Court in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Painted between 1932 and 1933, they were considered by Rivera to ...
Renaissance Center. The Renaissance Center, commonly known as the RenCen, is a complex of seven connected skyscrapers in downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. The Renaissance Center complex is on the Detroit International Riverfront and is owned and used by General Motors as its world headquarters. The central tower has been the tallest ...
Renovated. 2006. Closed. 1985. Website. cliffbells.com. Cliff Bell's is a jazz club in Detroit, Michigan which is located at 2030 Park Ave. [1] It originally opened in 1935, [2] and it is named after John Clifford Bell, an entrepreneur in Detroit in the 1930s. [3] Notable artists such as Marcus Miller have performed at Cliff Bell's. [4]
October 21, 1975. The Fisher Building is a landmark skyscraper located at 3011 West Grand Boulevard in the heart of the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan. The ornate 30-story building, completed in 1928, is one of the major works of architect Albert Kahn, and is designed in an Art Deco style, faced with limestone, granite, and several types ...
June 29, 1989 [ 1 ] The Guardian Building is a landmark 43-story office skyscraper in the Financial District of downtown Detroit, Michigan. Built from 1928 to 1929, the building was originally called the Union Trust Building[ 3 ] and is a bold example of Art Deco architecture, including art moderne designs. [ 4 ]
Grass Lake, MI: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 1-8911-4325-5. Higgins, James V (October 14, 1991). "Investment in the Future: Chrysler expects payback in innovation and efficiency". The Detroit News. Hyde, Charles K. (2003). Riding the Roller Coaster: History of the Chrysler Corporation. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143 ...
The Detroit Eight Mile Wall, also referred to as Detroit's Wailing Wall, Berlin Wall or The Birwood Wall, is a one-foot-thick (0.30 m), six-foot-high (1.8 m) separation wall that stretches about 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) in length. 1 foot (0.30 m) is buried in the ground and the remaining 5 feet (1.5 m) is visible to the community.
The Ransom Gillis House is a historic home located at 205 Alfred Street (formerly 63 Alfred prior to renumbering) [ 1 ] in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Brush Park district. It was designed by Henry T. Brush and George D. Mason and built between 1876 and 1878. The structure, unoccupied since the mid-1960s, was "mothballed" by the City ...