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GLORIUS DETROIT          
      history 313
     stuff to see
     word on the street
     made in detroit

DETROIT CITY                  
     boston edison district
     bricktown
     brush park
     cass corridor
     civic center area
     corktown
     cultural district
     eastern market
     greektown
     hamtramck
     mexicantown
     new center area
     theater district

DETROIT BURBS                  
     ann arbor
     auburn hills
     birmingham
     dearborn
     ferndale
     livonia
     mount clemens
     novi
     pontiac
     port huron
     royal oak
     st. clair shores
     ypsilanti


Detroit's Boston Edison DistrictThe Boston-Edison District is one of the earliest suburbs in Detroit. It is comprised of many large, single-residence homes that were built between 1900 and 1925. When the Henry Ford Hospital was built in 1915, numerous physicians built homes in the district.

Detroit's Boston Edison DistrictSome notable occupants of the Boston-Edison District were Clarence Monroe Burton, donor of the Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Public Library, Rabbi Leo Franklin, organizer of the United Jewish Charities, Henry Ford, Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joseph Moynihan and Ford Motor Company secretary and treasurer James Couzins. --Jacquie Trost