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Here's a postcard view. I wonder if the citizens of Grosse Pointe Park will demand that the empty site be plowed and salted to ensure nothing ever grow on the site again.

I forgot about my new toy! Last Sunday, I found a Bresser's Cross-Index Directory of Detroit. It lists everyone who had a phone by their street and house number. A problem is that there's no date,...

That address would be on the east side of Trumbull between Howard and Abbott. If the house lasted until after WWII, it was probably demolished as part of the Corktown Urban Renewal project of the...

The fact that M&H didn't do many houses, and that this is such an exceptionally fine facade [[is the interior as fine - does anyone know?) that one wonders if Wirt Rowland had any hand in the design....

Neilr - thanks for the photos of the Kapp house! I had no idea of its existence. These one-room deep house plans are great.

I would disagree about garbage pickup. I live in Woodbridge, and I think garbage pickup here works great. The Courville containers are ugly and ungainly to operate, but they do the trick: they...

Mr. Kuni was an early example of an architect who advertised. For a while [[I don't know how long), he ran a 4" x 4" weekly ad in Detroit Saturday Night. Two typical ads are attached from 1925. He -...

There's a published pen and ink rendering of 2205 Chicago - it's in one of the Thumb Tack Club catalogs.

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Here's a photo of the United Savings Bank facade - quite the tasty but expected excellence by AK, though I think he rather schmooshed the joint between the bank's formal three-bays and the...

I have to call foul on this last photo of United Savings Bank by Albert Kahn. The photo shows a facade definitely not by Kahn [[unless it's a remodeling by his firm AK Associates, long after the...

The American Beauty Building [[aka the American Electrical Heating Co. building) is definitely by Albert Kahn. A photo of it was published on page 265 of the June 19, 1912 issue of the American...

Wayne State is 1) forcing a suburban landscape upon Midtown, and 2) not being upfront about the American Beauty Building.

"They need parking" is [[for lack of a better word) bullshit. Within a...

I'll be there. I've been to one SAH convention before and I enjoyed the mix of people - and their curiosity about buildings.

Should we figure out a secret handshake, or all wear green...

This is a long-shot, but if I had seen this house in a small town in the poorer areas of southwestern Michigan, I would guess it to be a possible log cabin, covered over with layers of wood and...

This is a very interesting problem.

1. It is an unusual drawing in that it shows two very different buildings [[a church and an apartment building) separated by a street. But maybe it's not the...

As advertised on Craigslist:

http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/atq/2306597568.html

Jerry, you asked a question and I gave a preliminary answer.

As a personal aside, I'm not all that interested where you piss. Of course, I'd appreciate if you'd stay away from my house.

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Nothing? Why does a person think - that if he or she doesn't know anything about a building - that it has no history?

The building in question was built as a branch bank for the American...

Nice to hear your "eeek" again Carpster. Either your spelling or your typing skills have gone downhill - I bet you're looking for McGrath & Dohman. They appear as Detroit architects in the 1920s and...

Lancelot Sukert did a number of churches and educational buildings. He did St. Columba's Episcopal Church and the sunday school - social hall building which is very similar to that of St. Paul's;...

This is self-serving, but what the hell:

http://www.michigannow.org

aoife, thanks for the photos: that was a real service.

Kathleen - great minds think alike! I made the same route that you did, only last Thursday [[overcast). A number of the school names and...

"Some of my members from Church works there and it could loses its job if it happens."

Is this what is taught in the Detroit Public Schools? Can someone translate this into English?

Do you have the standard postcard views?

In the Homestyle section of today's Detroit News [[02.05.2010), the writer Jeanine Matlow describes a house in Bloomfield Hills in whose Living Room:

"Decorative iron details salvaged from the...