Preservation Detroit 2021 Tour Season

Our walking tour season started in June, one month later than usual, with COVID precautions in place.

There are still 3 weeks left of our Saturday morning walking tours of Downtown, Eastern Market, Midtown, and Cultural Center. If you are looking for something to do during September, check them out:
https://preservationdetroit.org/pres...-walking-tours

Our annual Cemetery tours are now scheduled for each of the 5 Saturdays in October. Featured cemeteries are Mt. Elliott, Elmwood, Mt. Olivet, and Woodlawn. Join us!!
https://preservationdetroit.org/cemetery-theatre-tours

Thanks to all who have supported Preservation Detroit during this 2021 summer walking tour season.

This Saturday, September 25, is our final day of the regular season. There is still room on our Downtown, Eastern Market, and Cultural Center tours.

Tickets for our October Cemetery Tours are going fast! Elmwood Cemetery tour is sold out!! So don't delay if you want to take a tour of Mount Elliott Cemetery, Mount Olivet Cemetery, or Woodlawn Cemetery. Less than 10 tickets remain available for each of those tours!!
https://preservationdetroit.org/cemetery-theatre-tours

See you there!!

I miss giving the theatre tours... the Fillmore State has been gloriously restored back in late 2018, the venue wasn't available for the tours in 2019 [due to a scheduled function], and in 2020 was cancelled due to pandemic. The 2021 tour was cancelled because the downtown venues weren't yet open for business.

So the restored Fillmore/State, which has 90 years of nicotine removed from the auditorium surfaces, a re-gilded dome and sidewalls, re-marbled columns, and new painted panel sidewalls of Tuscan bucolic settings, hasn't yet been shown via the theatre tours.

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Originally Posted by Gistok

I miss giving the theatre tours... the Fillmore State has been gloriously restored back in late 2018, the venue wasn't available for the tours in 2019 [due to a scheduled function], and in 2020 was cancelled due to pandemic. The 2021 tour was cancelled because the downtown venues weren't yet open for business.

So the restored Fillmore/State, which has 90 years of nicotine removed from the auditorium surfaces, a re-gilded dome and sidewalls, re-marbled columns, and new painted panel sidewalls of Tuscan bucolic settings, hasn't yet been shown via the theatre tours.

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Holy Crap!.....I had no idea, that is just stunning.

Very beautiful!

The Preservation Detroit Cemetery Tours scheduled across the five Saturdays in October are sold out!

We just added a second Woodlawn Cemetery tour for this Saturday, October 9, 2pm. Get your tickets now!!
https://preservationdetroit.org/cemetery-theatre-tours

Thanks to any DYes folks who bought Preservation Detroit cemetery tour tickets!! All 6 tours sold out!!

And we got some media coverage:
https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...ty/5876683001/

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...ns/6058532001/

Thanks again!!

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Originally Posted by Kathleen

Thanks to any DYes folks who bought Preservation Detroit cemetery tour tickets!! All 6 tours sold out!!

And we got some media coverage:
https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...ty/5876683001/

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...ns/6058532001/

Thanks again!!

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Kathleen - Is the tour just once a year? We've walked thru the cemetery on many occasions but it's been years. I would like to drag hubby to a tour.

^^ The Preservation Detroit cemetery tours are held only in October. Each Saturday of the month [[always 4, sometimes 5). We cover Elmwood, Mount Elliott, Mount Olivet, and Woodlawn. This year we offered 6 tours across the 5 Saturdays. All sold out!

Elmwood Cemetery offers a monthly tour, but they just concluded their 2021 tours.

Best bet is to make a note for 2022...start checking Preservation Detroit and Elmwood Cemetery websites for their tour schedule.

Kathleen, as a Preservation Detroit member, even I need to take some of the cemetery tours. I have driven through Elmwood and Mt. Elliott cemeteries many times, and even without a guide, they are a wonderful drive.

The drive thru "the valley" in Elmwood with all the mausoleums along the hillsides is an amazing drive... it reminds me of the "Dark Shadows" Gothic soap opera of decades ago... you almost expect Barnabas Collins to come out of one of the ancient hillside tombs. It's one of the few places in Detroit where you really feel like you are nowhere near Detroit.

One cemetery I have never been to is Woodlawn Cemetery... with the Egyptian mausoleum of the Dodge brothers, the graves of many of the Fords, and the final resting place of Rosa Parks and Aretha Franklin.

So much history!!

Looking forward to next year's theatre tours... for the Fillmore/State it will have been a 3 year hiatus of not showing that theatre since the 2018 restoration. The 2022 theatre tour will be the first with the Fillmore being completely restored.

I'm looking forward to giving tours of that theatre. Learned something new about that historic theatre that has had more renames than any other downtown theatre. In the 1920s theatre impressario John Kunsky leased the State out to Loew's/MGM owner Marcus Loew. And even though it was never labeled as a Loew's theatre... in all MGM movie ads in Detroit newspapers, it was called the "Loew's State".

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Originally Posted by Kathleen

^^ The Preservation Detroit cemetery tours are held only in October. Each Saturday of the month [[always 4, sometimes 5). We cover Elmwood, Mount Elliott, Mount Olivet, and Woodlawn. This year we offered 6 tours across the 5 Saturdays. All sold out!

Elmwood Cemetery offers a monthly tour, but they just concluded their 2021 tours.

Best bet is to make a note for 2022...start checking Preservation Detroit and Elmwood Cemetery websites for their tour schedule.

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Ok will do. Thanks.