Images of Detroit circa 1910

[EastsideAl]

That Society of Arts and Crafts building on Watson was a real loss. My mother studied there when she was young, and fought with some people to try to save the building. However, a total lack of interest from both CCS and Pewabic [[both of whom would presumably have some historic interest in it) doomed the project form the start. Even in its state of advanced decay though, before it burned, you could see from the inside that it had been a lovely building.

The Bemb florist building was on Bates between Randolph and Farmer and was run by well known Detroit florist Al Pochelon. He was one of the founders of what became FTD, and later replaced the structure shown above with the Pochelon Building to house his business, and then built the adjacent 1000 Farmer [[Sachs Waldman) building [[with greenhouses on top), which was the first offices of FTD. Those buildings were recently bought by agents of Dan Gilbert and are presumably doomed along with the adjacent parking garage.