Glorious Detroit: Stuff To See
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GLORIOUS 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 |
FOX THEATER
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C. Howard Crane built the Fox Theater,
an example of a movie palace architectural design, in 1928. At
the
time, the theater had the largest clear span balcony in the
world. Fox was the product of
William
Fox, a famous theater promoter and developer. The building is a
10-story
steel-frame that occupies an entire city block of Woodward. The
five-story
main lobby includes a grand staircase that leads to the upper
auditorium,
which seats 5,042 people.GREEKTOWN HISTORICAL DISTRICT 
Greektown has served as the
ethnic
retailing district for more than 140 years. The area started as a
pioneer
farm, evolved into a German area, and finally served as a Greek
dominated
neighborhood. The region is comprised of Victorian two and
three-story
commercial and industrial buildingsTHE MICHIGAN STOVE STRUCTURE 
The Michigan Stove is located at the Michigan State Fairgrounds, and
was
originally built in 1892 by the Michigan Stove Company. It was
made
of hand carved wood and measured about 25 feet high, 30 feet long, 20
feet
wide and weighed about 15 tons. The Stove was painted in such a
way
that it appeared to be a cast iron stove of the day. After 1880,
Michigan
was known as the stove capitol of the country and that was the reason
for
creating the structure. Construction of the stove was supervised
by
a man named George Barbour the vice-president of the Michigan Stove
Company.
The stove was constructed to represent Detroit at the 1893 World’s
Columbian Exposition in Chicago. After the exposition, the
structure was taken apart and shipped back to Detroit and put up in
front of the Michigan Stove Company. In 1957, Schafer Bakeries
purchased the stove and donated tn
to the city of Detroit in 1965. The city erected the stove at the
State
Fairgrounds. In the early 70’s the stove was in such poor condition, it
was
moved to the Fort Wayne Museum. In 1998, the stove was restored
and
unveiled by Governor John Engler.OAK HILL CEMETERY In 1822, the Pontiac Company gave the city the first land for a village cemetery. In 1839, Captain Hervey Parke was employed by the village of Pontiac to survey the lot, and the cemetery was plotted out. The Oak Hill Cemetery was located at the intersection of Saginaw and Huron Streets and includes the Buckland Memorial Chapel. Major General Israel Richardson, Colonel Stephen Mack (manager of the Pontiac Company), Governor Moses Wisner and David Ward all have monuments there. Twenty-seven Civil War soldiers and WW I Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Dr. Harold Furlong are also buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery. BOSTON-EDISTON HISTORIC DISTRICT 
The 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
home
in the district. Some notable occupants of the Boston-Edison District were Charles 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.HENRY FORD HOUSE 
The Ford House is
located at 140 Edison Avenue in Detroit. The house was occupied
by
Henry and Clara Ford from 1908 to 1915 and cost more than
$480,000.
The family built a machine shop above the garage for their son Edsel,
who
later carried on his father’s automobile legacy. In 1915, the
Ford
family moved to their Fairlane estate in Dearborn.CULTURAL CENTER HISTORIC DISTRICT 
The Cultural Center District
spans
from 5200 and 5201 Woodward and 100 Farnsworth Avenue. These
three
addresses signify three buildings the center of the city’s Cultural
Center.
The Detroit Public Library, The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) and the
Horace
H. Rackham Education Memorial Building are the structures that display
the
most spectacular architecture of the time. The Detroit Public
Library
is a marble Italian Renaissance designs and was built by Cass Gilbert
from
1915 to 1921. The DIA was created in the Beaux Arts style and was
designed
by Paul Phillippe Cret in 1921 to 1927. Finally, the Rackham
Education
Memorial Building is a made of limestone and was created by the firm of
Harley,
Ellington and Day in 1941. The three structures were built during
the
City Beautiful movement of the early twentieth century. After the
Rackham
building was built, the Cultural Center added a few other notable
structures
such as the Detroit Historical Museum, the International Institute, the
Society of Arts and Crafts Art School, the Detroit Science Center and
the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.DAVID WHITNEY HOUSE 
The Whitney mansion is a three-story Romanesque Revival building with pink
South Dakota jasper walls. The house includes Tiffany glass
windows and jasper columns help support multiple arches throughout the
house. Over 42 rooms in the mansion are adorned with onyx, marble
and hand-carved woodwork. Whitney was a lumber baron and steam
ship owner who was one of Detroit’s wealthiest
citizens. He commissioned Detroit architect Gordon W.
Lloyd
to build the mansion from 1890 to 1894. The Whitney is currently
used
as a restaurant and is located on Woodward Avenue.ORCHESTRA HALL 
Orchestra Hall is home to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, which was the city’s
original concert
hall. It was built in 1919 by one of Detroit’s premier theater
architects,
Charles H. Crane. The hall was completed in only four moths in order to
get
internationally renowned conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch. In the 20
years
following it’s construction, Orchestra Hall hosted over 260 Detroit
premieres,
18 American premiers and three world premiers. Igor Stravinski,
Serge
Rachmanioff, Vladimir Horowitz and many other well-known artists have
performed
at the hall. Over the years, Orchestra Hall has served as the
Church
of Our Prayer (1955) and also operated as the Paradise Theater for
vaudeville
and movies. Efforts to restore the building began in 1970 and
many
Michiganians now enjoy the hall. --Jacquie TrostOrchestra Hall photo by detroitderek |
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