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Demolition of the remaining buildings of the Frederick Douglass Homes began in September 2013. [9] Demolition was substantially complete by the end of August 2014. From historic marker on the site of Brewster Homes. Between 1910 and 1940 Detroit, Michigan's African American population increased dramatically. In 1935, First Lady Eleanor ...
US Army Detroit Arsenal, 2013. Chrysler's construction effort at the plant in 1941 was one of the fastest on record. [3] The first tanks rumbled out of the plant before its complete construction. [4] During World War II, the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant built a quarter of the 89,568 tanks produced in the U.S. overall. The plant made M3 Lee tanks ...
Buildings and structures completed in 1940 (19 C, 39 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1941 (19 C, 31 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1942 (19 C, 42 P)
The larger apartment buildings continued to be constructed along Jefferson, with the much larger Garden Court Apartments (1915), the Whittier Hotel (1922–1926), and the Alden Park Towers (1922) built over the next two decades, and The Kean (1931) built just as the Great Depression halted construction for years. These structures are ...
At the turn of the 20th century, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin of Detroit's Temple Beth El led the push for the construction of a new temple building. [7] He hired architect Albert Kahn, a member of the congregation, to design the building. [7] Groundbreaking began on November 25, 1901, with the ceremonial cornerstone laid on April 23, 1902. [7]
One was the old 13-story Hotel Eddystone, the other was the 13-story Park Avenue Hotel. The hotels dated to 1924 and 1925, respectively, and each were on the National Register of Historic Places.
Some 20 years later, Ford Motor Co. stepped forward as the abandoned station's long-awaited savior, buying the building to be the centerpiece of its new Detroit mobility campus. A grand unveiling ...
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.