Page 1 of 2 1 2 Last Jump to page: Results 1 to 25 of July, PM 1. Join Date Mar Posts July, PM 2. Join Date Sep Posts 4, Northwestern Branch Y. Designed by Albert Kahn. Attached Images. July, PM 3. July, PM 4. Designed by Robert O. July, PM 5. Also includes a drawing from a issue of Michigan Architect and Engineer.
July, AM 6. Join Date Feb Posts 3, Any big YWHA's around p69rrh51? July, AM 7. It closed in and was demolished in United Artists Theater. The United Artists Theater is one of Detroit's most amazing ruins, abandoned for over 20 years and awaiting redevelopment. Pinnacle Race Course. Pinnacle Race Course was a horse racing track in suburban Detroit that operated for only two years before closing and being abandoned. Hosmer Branch Library.
The Hosmer Branch Library was built in , and was later converted into a health climic. It has been abandoned since the mid 's. Pontiac Silverdome. The Pontiac Silverdome was a vacant sports stadium, formerly the home of the Detroit Lions football team, and the Detroit Pistons basketball team.
Mark Twain Branch Library. Belle Isle Nature Zoo. It closed in due to budgetary problems. The Ford Auditorium. It closed in the mid 90's and was demolished in The Grande Ballroom. The Eastown Theater. The Eastown Theater was a large theater in Detroit. A communal bathroom is seen in the next photo; there were a couple of these for each residential floor of the building:.
Clark, owner of a prominent shipyard at the foot of the street now named in his honor. It used to be part of a ribbon farm that went from the Detroit River all the way up to what is now Tireman Avenue.
When Mr. Clark died in , his will left half of a acre tract known as "Clark Grove" to the city, provided the city purchase the other half from his heirs. City officials grumbled about the cost of the "gift," but it has proven to be an indispensable asset to the community.
I can vouch for the fact that this area was already being built up with many middle-class Victorian homes in the s when Mr. Clark's land came into municipal hands, and a large park was needed.
They sat in the basement of the YMCA "snapping gum, giggling," and comparing war stories. Derrick may have also had a hand in designing the Clark Building at 25 Grand River, which I explored in an older post.
Hawkins asserts that this YMCA attested to Derrick's skill with the Georgian style of architecture as used in urban areas. According to a book by Geoffrey Upward, the reason Robert O. Derrick was chosen to design Henry Ford Museum instead of, say, Albert Kahn was because of one night in when both men were aboard a steamship to Europe. Ford knew that Derrick was aboard, and invited the architect to his party for tea one night, and they got to talking.
Derrick was also friends with Henry Ford's son Edsel and his wife Eleanor, who of course were very active in the Detroit art and culture scene. I took the opportunity to stick my head out some windows for shots of the admittedly spartan architectural details:.
Looking out one of the oval attic windows, west on Jefferson Avenue toward downtown:. Directly across the street was the old City Waterworks:. Email This BlogThis! Someone Critique September 7, at AM.
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