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The Jefferson–Chalmers Historic Business District is a neighborhood located on East Jefferson Avenue between Eastlawn Street and Alter Road in Detroit, Michigan.The district is the only continuously intact commercial district remaining along East Jefferson Avenue, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The Bagley House is a two-and-one-half-story French Renaissance Revival mansion built of red sandstone brick. [2] [3] Evidence has revealed that the house was designed in the French Renaissance Revival style by the Detroit firm Rogers and MacFarlane, while it was previously believed to have been designed by Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge of the Richardson firm since the family had hired ...
The River Terrace Apartments is an apartment building located at 7700 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [ 1 ] River Terrace Apartments was one of the first two garden apartment complexes built in Michigan which used loan guarantees from the Federal Housing ...
Frederick Stearns Building, c. 1910. Frederick Stearns & Company, established in 1855, [4] was a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer in 19th century Detroit. In the late 1890s, Frederick K. Stearns (son of the firm's founder, Frederick A. Stearns) commissioned William B. Stratton to design this building [3] (Stratton also designed Stearns's personal home, the Frederick K. Stearns House, a few ...
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Thomas Augustus Parker was born in New York and came to Detroit with his brother in 1845. [2] The two established a successful wholesale grocery business, enabling Parker to grow wealthy. [ 2 ] After his retirement, he invested most of his grocery profits in real estate, and was said to be worth $750,000 in 1895.
The Frederick K. Stearns House is a historic inn located at 8109 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, directly adjacent to the Arthur M. Parker House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]
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