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by Roni Leibovitch   Over the recent decades Detroit has taken on many nicknames including Motown, The Motor City, Hockeytown, Rock City or just simply “The D”. While we are proud of our automotive heritage and music history there are...
Thursday, 23 February 2012 | 228 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more
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  Photographer Kevin Bauman took pictures of 100 abandoned houses in Detroit. Here's a slideshow of them.
Friday, 07 January 2011 | 785 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more
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Abandoned Pfeiffer Brewery in Detroit, originally uploaded by Derek Farr ( DetroitDerek ). With the colors "slightly" enhanced for your viewing pleasure. Located on Mack Avenue, the plants here were built in 1912, a few weeks after the...
Thursday, 01 October 2009 | 756 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more
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Talk is cheap, but it can slap you in the face. When I was a teacher in Pontiac, I remember people's uncomfortable questions about where I chose to work. You've probably had similar experiences. How many of you have been met with awe and...
Thursday, 02 July 2009 | 870 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more
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As America's most influential industrial architect, Albert Kahn revolutionized the health and safety conditions of early twentieth-century factories and worked closely with Henry Ford to implement his vision of the assembly line at the Highland...
Wednesday, 01 June 2011 | 453 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more
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Charles B. King had a dream, the way Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac had a dream when in 1701 he first put foot to land on the banks of the river which would one day be called Detroit, Mich. King’s dream was simple: it was movement; it was...
Friday, 30 April 2010 | 1707 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more
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The DeRoy Testamentary Foundation recently awarded Pewabic Pottery a grant of $20,000 to support Pewabic’s program “The Science of Ceramics”, and its continued instruction to underserved minority youth seeking careers in science and...
Friday, 21 October 2011 | 435 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more
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Book: Detroit's Corktown (mi) (images Of America) Detroits Corktown celebrates the history of Detroits oldest neighborhood. From Irish immigrants in the 1840s to urban pioneers of the 21st century, this community has beckoned to the restless of...
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 | 765 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more
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East Ferry Avenue Streetscape (Alternative View)--Detroit MI, originally uploaded by pinehurst19475. The East Ferry Historic District began as an exclusive residential area in the late 1880s, after serving as an experimental seed farm for the...
Thursday, 09 October 2008 | 1260 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more
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Charles Agree made his entire livelihood in the Detroit area during the 1920s. A Cass Tech graduate, Agree opened his own firm in the Book Tower in 1919 and was commissioned to design the Whittier Towers in the 1920s. Later, his designs...
Monday, 25 April 2011 | 548 hits | Print | PDF |  Email | Read more

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