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Here's a copy of something I posted several years ago.

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KnnNike,
IMO, the Garden Court is a very handsome, elegant building and the...

Here's a copy of something I posted on September 12, 2012.

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Stanley Hong lead an interesting life. His home, pictured above by Shev313, was designed by Nathan Johnson, a noted architect in Detroit at a time when there were very few Black architects with their...

I didn't actually attend the event but I looked down on it from one of the old overpasses while listening to the band play on Saturday afternoon.

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7661 LaSalle Blvd. was designed by J. Ivan Dise. It was built for Lyford Moore in 1924. Here's pictures of a couple of his other designs. The first is on Chicago Blvd. just west of LaSalle. The other...

Today's New York Times [[11-9-20) Cooking posted an article, This Is the Best Poundcake by Sam Sifton. He gives that honor to Otis Lee, the founding owner of Mr. FoFo's.
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KnnNike,
IMO, the Garden Court is a very handsome, elegant building and the subdivision of the original large apartments has, in general, been well done.
Here's a cut and paste of one of my posts...

I like Barbara Greene's work. I'm lucky to have several of her quirky drawings.

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This map is from David Katzman's book, Before the Ghetto, which is a detailed history of Detroit's Black community in the 19th century.

Yes, I remember as a UDHS student being in Darby's one night probably after a school dance and seeing what seemed to me to be a rich older woman at the counter buying food to go.

My copy arrived last week. On one hand, I was a bit disappointed that it didn't contain numerous color pictures but that's the nature of a "field guide." What you give up is more than made up by the...

Detroit artist Nic Notion standing near his mural depicting John Conyers attempting to disperse the crowd on Twelfth Street in 1967.

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BMoo,
Your picture is from The Architecture of Gunnar Birkerts, Kay Kaiser, 1989. It's one of four pictures. Here are the others.
Hope that this helps.

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A number of years back, the Chateaufort Coop, on the non-famous architect side of Lafayette Park, lost several of its trees. Shortly afterward, they were replaced with two oak trees. I called the...

Best wishes for a complete recovery, Mr. Gilbert.

If she decides on UofD/Mercy Law School, the Palms apartment on the corner of East Jefferson & Rivard is just a couple of blocks to the east. The very large apartments have been broken into much,...

Here's a good link.

https://www.customshingles.com/cotswold-cottage

What you're describing is a Cotswold Cottage style shingle roof which has an appearance of a thatched roof. Here's a nice example on Iroquois in Indian Village.

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University District/Sherwood Forest/Palmer Woods/Green Acres/Palmer Park Apartments
Boston Blvd., etc.
Fisher Bldg.
New Center Commons
Guardian Bldg.
Murals in Eastern Market
Lafayette Park...

We have a winner!! SammyS nailed it. The Fyfe Shoe Store was the place you went to if you needed special sizes, orthopedic shoes, or any type of made to measure footwear. Or just a really large...

Take a look at the gargoyles between the 4th & 5th floors next time you pass by. Can you guess what they are doing?

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Garfield Intermediate School, perhaps.

The Downtown Library, aka The Skillman Branch, in decades past housed the foreign newspaper collection. On most days the reading room would be populated by elderly men reading the newspapers from the...

On two occasions I took Amtrak to NYC back in the early 90s. The first time I boarded the train in Detroit ~11 pm for a short ride to Toledo where I transferred to the overnight to NYC at ~midnight....

I’m not certain, but in the recesses of my mind, I vaguely remember that the Hari Krishna group was using this house at one time.
But what I do remember was the time I was in the house. This would...