Detroit Real Estate-Luxury Waterfront Living
Morgan Waterfront Estates. Premier Waterfront living on the Detroit River. Close proximity to Downtown Detroit, 1 mile from Belle Isle, 3 miles from Grosse Pointe.
Exploring Abandoned Buildings In Detroit
Exploring abandoned buildings in Detroit, including the Packard Plant, Michigan Central Train Station, St Mary's School, and the Highland Park Police Station (ok, this one's not in Detroit, but close enough).
Interior of the Fisher Building and Theater, Detroit, Michigan, October 8, 2017
Fisher Building and Theater, Detroit, Michigan, October 8, 2017
Inside Detroit's historic Fisher Building
A quick peek inside the ornate Fisher Building in Detroit, which opened in September 1928 and is known as Detroit's largest art object.
Fisher Building in Detroit MI
The Fisher Building (1928) is an ornate skyscraper in the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan, United States constructed of limestone, granite, and marble. Financed by the Fisher family with proceeds from the sale of Fisher Body to General Motors, the structure was designed to house office and retail space. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark on June 29, 1989. The building also contains the 2,089 seat Fisher Theatre. The building houses the headquarters of Detroit Public Schools.
Standing on the corner of West Grand Boulevard and Second Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, the Art Deco skyscraper lies in the heart of the New Center area of Detroit. The office building rises 30-stories with a roof height of 428 feet (130 m), a top floor height of 339 feet (103 m), and the spire reaching 444 feet (135 m). The building has 21 elevators. Designed by Albert Kahn and Associates with Joseph Nathaniel French as chief architect, it has been called Detroit's largest art object. and is widely considered Kahn's greatest achievement. The year of its construction, the Fisher building was honored by the Architectural League of New York as the year's most beautiful commercial structure. The opulent three-story barrel vaulted lobby is constructed with forty different kinds of marble, decorated by Hungarian artist Géza Maróti, and is highly regarded by architects.
Uniquely Detroit: Inside the Motown Mansion
Uniquely Detroit takes you inside the history and splendor of the Motown Mansion.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN'S MAGNIFICENT FISHER BUILDING
I made these photos on October 21, 2015. This building should be considered a national treasure. If you are ever in Detroit, Michigan you must make time to see this truly beautiful structure. The inside is truly amazing!!!!!
Downtown Detroit Architecture ~ Discover the D
Detroit's Historic Theater is now a Parking Garage
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Amazing history attached to this place. Detroit's Michigan Theater opened in 1926 and I'm sure it was an amazing site in it's heyday.
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Abandoned 15 story high-rise hotel
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The Fisher Building
This 1928 landmark skyscraper is a Detroit treasure! If you've never explored the Fisher Building, make sure to put it on your list!
Aerial view of The Fisher Building in Detroit museum District
This video is an aerial view of the Fisher Building located in Detroit, Michigan with downtown located in the background.
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The Whitney Detroit
Evp session using DPX Flir camera. Founders Jeff and Todd inside the carriage house at The Whitney in Detroit #paranormal #investigation #detroit
Detroit - Haverhill House Tour
This is a tour of the bank owned property on Haverhill in Detroit.
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I Love Detroit - Part 1
This 5-minute video showcases photographs taken in the City of Detroit. Because Detroit has so many amazing architectural and landscape resources, this video just begins to scratch the surface of what makes Detroit one of the most beautiful places in the U.S.
All photographs and video production by Rod Arroyo, CityPhotosAndBooks.com.
Rod Arroyo is a photographer and city planner based in southeast Michigan.
Westin Book Cadillac Penthouse 2905
Take a private narrated tour of extraordinary Penthouse 2905, the most expensive condo in Detroit.
Inside Detroit's former Michigan Theatre, now a parking garage
The Michigan Building at 220 Bagley Ave. in Downtown Detroit, along with 29 other properties owned by Dennis Kefallinos in Detroit and Hamtramck, are being marketed for sale. The former Michigan Theatre opened in 1926 as the largest concert and movie house in the state and more recently made famous by the movie 8 Mile, in which scenes were filmed. In 1976 the former theater space was converted into a parking garage for the office building's tenants. The site is also where Henry Ford built his first automobile.
DETROIT: FORD PIQUETTE AVE. PLANT - BOSTON EDISON
Detroit is still known as the Motor City because of its history in car manufacturing and no story is more compelling than that of Henry Ford and the Model T. Well it al goes back to the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant.
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is a former factory located within the Milwaukee Junction area of Detroit, Michigan, in the United States. Built in 1904, it was the second center of automobile production for the Ford Motor Company, after the Ford Mack Avenue Plant. At the Piquette Avenue Plant, the company created and first produced the Ford Model T, the car credited with initiating the mass use of automobiles in the United States. Prior to the Model T, several other car models were assembled at the factory. Early experiments using a moving assembly line to make cars were also conducted there. It was also the first factory where more than 100 cars were assembled in one day. While it was headquartered at the Piquette Avenue Plant, Ford Motor Company became the biggest U.S.-based automaker, and it would remain so until the mid-1920s. The factory was used by the company until 1910, when its car production activity was relocated to the new, bigger Highland Park Ford Plant.
Studebaker bought the factory in 1911, using it to assemble cars until 1933. The building was sold in 1936, going through a series of owners for the rest of the 20th century before becoming a museum in 2001. The Piquette Avenue Plant is the oldest purpose-built automotive factory building open to the public. The museum, which was visited by 18,000 people in 2016, has exhibits that primarily focus on the beginning of the United States automotive industry. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, became a Michigan State Historic Site in 2003, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006.
Detroit coal merchant Alexander Y. Malcomson, and a group of investors formed the Ford Motor Company on June 16, 1903, to assemble automobiles.[1]:10–11[2] The company's first car model, the original Ford Model A, began to be assembled that same month at the Ford Mack Avenue Plant, a rented wagon manufacturing shop in Detroit, Michigan.[1]:11–12 The company quickly outgrew this facility and, on April 10, 1904, bought a parcel of land off of Piquette Avenue in Detroit to accommodate a larger factory.[1]:12 The land was located in the Milwaukee Junction area, whose name is derived from a railroad junction within it.[1]:4, 12 The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant's construction started on May 10, 1904.[1]:12 The company moved into its new factory the following October.[1]:13
The Detroit-based architectural firm Field, Hinchman & Smith designed the Piquette Avenue Plant.[1]:9, 12 It is an example of late Victorian-style architecture and was modeled after New England textile mills.[1]:7[3] Designing factories based on this type of mill was common practice in the United States at the time.[4] The building is three stories high, 56 feet (17.1 m) wide, and 402 feet (122.5 m) long.[5][6] Its load-bearing exterior brick walls contain 355 windows, and its maple floors, supported by square oak beams and posts, cover 67,000 square feet (6,224.5 m2).[1]:7[7] The Piquette Avenue Plant contains two elevator-stairwell combinations, one located on its northwest corner and the other located on its southwest side.[1]:5, 7 Recalling a fire in March 1901 that destroyed the Olds Motor Works factory in Detroit, Henry Ford and the architects included a fire sprinkler system in the building's design, a rare feature for industrial buildings of the period.[8] This and several other original safety features in the factory, such as its firewalls, fire doors, and fire escapes, are still present.[1]:7[8] Water for the sprinkler system was supplied by a wooden water tank located on the building's roof.[1]:5 A brick powerhouse, measuring 36 feet (11.0 m) wide by 57 feet (17.4 m) long, was the original electricity provider for the factory, and was located near its northwest corner.[1]:4, 12–13 The water tank and powerhouse no longer exist.[1]:4–5
Lawrence Fisher Mansion (external) Swami Prabhupada Vedic Temple (internal)
Inspired by the spiritual teachings of His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Alfred Brush Ford(great-grandson of Henry Ford) and Elisabeth Reuther Dickmeyer(daughter of United Auto workers President, Walter Reuther) jointly purchased the Fisher Estate in 1975 as the site for the Bhaktivendanta Cultural Center.
The Bhaktivedanta Cultural Center features an extraordinary exhibit of India's timeless heritage with a magnificient traditional Vedic Temple and an elaborate multimedia presentation combining exquisite sculptures with state of the art audio visual technology. A fine art gallery displays classical and contemporary paintings and art objects illustrative of the enlightened teachings of Indian philosophical thought.
Wellington R Burt
Wellington R. Burt (August 26, 1831 – March 2, 1919) was a wealthy lumber baron from Saginaw, Michigan.[2][3] At the time of his death, his wealth was estimated to be between $40 and $90 million.[4][5] For a time in the early 1900s, Burt ranked as one of the eight wealthiest men in the United States.[6] He was best known for his lumber mills and timber holdings, but was also involved in iron mining, railroads, salt mines and finances. Burt was a politician, holding the offices of Mayor of East Saginaw (1867–68) and member of the Michigan Senate (1893–94). In his final years, he lived alone in a mansion with his servants. Estranged from friends and family and nicknamed The Lone Pine of Michigan, he officially died of senility at age 87.[7][8]
Burt had an unusual will, as bizarre but as finely-wrought as any in U.S. court annals.[5] It contained a spite clause conceived by Burt to avenge a family feud.[5] It specified to wait 21 years after his children and grandchildren were dead before the bulk of the fortune could go to any descendants, in effect alienating his children and grandchildren from the estate, beyond some small annuities. The conditions of the will were met in 2010 after the 1989 death of his last grandchild. In May 2011, twelve of Burt's descendants finally received the estate, worth about $100 million.[6]
Burt's legacy today is mixed, seen as a vindictive old man, a generous benefactor of the city of Saginaw and a famously wealthy American entrepreneur.