Another nice selection from www.shorpy.com
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Another nice selection from www.shorpy.com
Nice! Thank you.
Street view
It's often interesting to wander around the neighborhood with these things.
That's the gate to the James Scripps Mansion, which was later the St. Mary's residence for women. It burned down in 1986. What you see remaining there today are the ruins of the fence and the carriage house.
Across Trumbull was the Booth Mansion, where Scripps' daughter and her husband George Booth [[founders of Cranbrook) lived. That mansion was used as the Scripps Branch of the Detroit Public Library for several years. My mother, who lived nearby on a now-gone stretch of Brooklyn, went there pretty much every day as a girl. The DPL tore it down for replacement with a new library branch in the 1960s.
The James Scripps house circa 1881. The before the hodgepodge of additions. The images is from the Burton Historical Collection.
The 1891 addition to the Scripps house designed by Mason & Rice, and the Mason & Rice designed carriage house. The image of the addition is from the Burton Historical Collection.
Designed by Mason & Rice for George G. Booth. 3661 Trumbull built in 1889 Woodbridge Historic District Detroit, MI.
Extensively altered 1908-1909 and razed in the 1960's.
Designed by Smith, Hinchman & Grylls. James E. Scripps Branch Detroit Public Library. 3661 Trumbull built 1908-1909 Woodbridge Historic District Detroit, MI.
Demolished: 1960's
Part of the building was formed by the Mason & Rice designed house of George G. Booth.
Image from the book Detroit Public Library Branches 1914.
The replacement library branch. Designed by Louis Redstone. Douglas Branch Detroit Public Library 3666 Grand River Avenue built 1970-1971 Woodbridge Farms Historic District Detroit, MI.
It doesn't even compare to what it replaced. How cheap looking and sad.Quote:
Originally Posted by p69rrh51
Thanks for filling in blanks P69.... a pleasure as alway, to see your images! ;)
Sy... there should be a before/after pic of the 2 branches... as a poster for Historic Preservation. Unfortunately the 1960s and early 1970s were the nadir of the preservation movement. In many instances buildings were razed with a... "so you won't have to look at all that old stuff anymore..." mentality. It's the continuation of this mentality among some developers even today that is so appalling. :[[
Those designs are so prison like...
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Comparing the two pics you can see that Trumbull must have been widened at some point, resulting in removal of all the beautiful street trees.
Drjeff - I also noticed that. Isn't it time we gave Trumbull a road diet and returned it back to its old school width?
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