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  2. Dorothy H. Turkel House - Wikipedia

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    The Dorothy H. Turkel House is a private residence located at 2760 West 7 Mile Road in north-central Detroit, Michigan, within the Palmer Woods neighborhood. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1956. [1] The Dorothy H. Turkel House is the only Wright-designed building within the city limits of Detroit. [1]

  3. Metropolitan Building (Detroit) - Wikipedia

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    The Element Detroit at the Metropolitan is a high-rise hotel, formerly the Metropolitan Building, a historic office building located on a triangular lot at 33 John R Street in downtown Detroit, Michigan, near Grand Circus Park. The building was built in 1924 and finished in 1925.

  4. Architecture of metropolitan Detroit - Wikipedia

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    Detroit's architecture is recognized as being among the finest in the U.S. Detroit has one of the largest surviving collections of late-19th- and early-20th-century buildings in the U.S. [3] Because of the city's economic difficulties, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has listed many of Detroit's skyscrapers and buildings as some of ...

  5. Piquette Avenue Industrial Historic District - Wikipedia

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    In April 2024, Detroit Public Media announced that it had purchased the building to redevelop as its new headquarters. [5] The building was previously owned by and used as a storage facility by the city's parks and recreation department, although there were plans to repurpose it for the Architectural Salvage Warehouse of Detroit.

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Detroit

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    Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...

  7. Standard illuminant - Wikipedia

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    The spectrum of a standard illuminant, like any other profile of light, can be converted into tristimulus values. The set of three tristimulus coordinates of an illuminant is called a white point. If the profile is normalized, then the white point can equivalently be expressed as a pair of chromaticity coordinates.

  8. White point - Wikipedia

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    An illuminant is characterized by its relative spectral power distribution (SPD). The white point of an illuminant is the chromaticity of a white object under the illuminant, and can be specified by chromaticity coordinates, such as the x, y coordinates on the CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram (hence the use of the relative SPD and not the absolute SPD, because the white point is only related to ...

  9. List of tallest buildings in Detroit - Wikipedia

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    The Penobscot Building in 2007; it is the city's third tallest building and rises above the Detroit Financial District. This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Detroit. For most of Detroit's earlier years, the tallest buildings in the city were churches and government buildings with their steeples.