Detroit's wealth of architectural talent!

[pkbroch]

I hope you are feeling better. Keep up the great work. I sent you a link, [[PM) about PW.

[southofbloor]

Wow - floodgates flooding! Love it.

[p69rrh51]

I had this house attributed to another architectual firm but now with the proper corrections and for Stromberg2 a firehouse by George Mason with its tower still standing.



Engine 22 Detroit Fire Department 6130 Michigan Avenue built in 1896 Detroit, MI.

[p69rrh51]

A design by Chittenden & Kotting.



Michigan Alkali Company Administration Building 1609 Biddle built in 1907 Wyandotte, MI.

[p69rrh51]

A design by Frank Miles.



60 Cambridge built in 1926 Grosse Pointe Farms, MI.

[p69rrh51]

Estate by Robert O. Derrick.



1480 West Romeo Road [[32 Mile Road) built in 1927 Addison Oaks Country Park Leonard, MI.

[p69rrh51]

Apartments by Richard Marr.



Northcourse Apartments 2025 West McNichols built in 1925 Palmer Park Boulevard Historic District Highland Park, MI.

[p69rrh51]

I think I had a request for information on 1710 Seminole. The home has been discussed here before if I remember correctly. All I have is the original owner was Paul R. Gray [[1867-1929), the home cost approx. $11,000.00 to build in 1910 and its pre-1921 address was 336 Seminole. His mother [[Anna Hayward Gray) lived at 961 Burns and his sister [[Alice Gray Kales) lived at 971 and 1730 Burns. Of course the architect is Marcus Burrowes.

[John]

Ironically the Sanders plant at 100 Oakman, mentioned at the begining of this thread, is currently going up in flames.

http://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthr...e-in-North-End

[p69rrh51]

Ironically the Sanders plant at 100 Oakman, mentioned at the begining of this thread, is currently going up in flames.

http://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthr...e-in-North-End

Yes a sad ending to a to a icon of Detroit history.

[p69rrh51]

Another of Detroit's long list of disrespected architects Wirt C. Rowland.



Mark Twain Branch 4741 Iroquois built in 1940 Detroit Public Library Detroit, MI.


RIP!

[p69rrh51]

Library by Louis Kamper. Could be returned to its original format. Fortunately the building is currently in use.



George Hosmer Branch Detroit Public Library 3320 Gratiot built in 1911 Detroit, MI.

[p69rrh51]

Apartments by Isadore M. Lewis.



850 Whitmore built in 1952 Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District Detroit, MI.

[southofbloor]

More Hosmer. Love how it is on axis with the street.

[southofbloor]

Southofthebloor I may have a clue to 7640 LaSalle Blvd. I have posted 7640 and 1012 Burns built in 1907 designed by Grylls and Gies. Very striking similarities between the 2 homes.

Nice - Very similar! And amazingly different re condition. What's up with LaSalle and area - decimated. Might try to revive that thread.

[southofbloor]

One of my favorite homes in the city by Malcomson & Higginbotham. The home's original owner is William A. Pungs, founder of Pung's-Finch Auto and Gas Engine Company. In 1906 the company introduced a limited roadster with an engine using a Hemispherical Combustion Chamber 45 years before Chysler supposedly "invented" the Hemi. If you are interested there are very good images of the only Limited in existance on the net just use a good search engine.



60 East Ferry Avenue built in 1891 East Ferry Historic District Detroit, MI.

Me too - Go Inn on Ferry!

[canuck]

Another of Detroit's long list of disrespected architects Wirt C. Rowland.



Mark Twain Branch 4741 Iroquois built in 1940 Detroit Public Library Detroit, MI.


RIP!

I really like this one. I like the way architects up until the war could humbly use historical vocabulary to produce unique and powerful buildings with modern technology and materials. The postwar years brought us the Blah school of architecture as far as I am concerned. I started looking at selling my house in the suburbs to buy an old house in the city, probably built between the 1880's to 1910's.

[Kathleen]

Library by Louis Kamper. Could be returned to its original format. Fortunately the building is currently in use.

George Hosmer Branch Detroit Public Library 3320 Gratiot built in 1911 Detroit, MI.

Thanks, p69rrh51, for this Kamper reference. I had not come across this during past research on him.

[Neilr]

Apartments by Richard Marr.



Northcourse Apartments 2025 West McNichols built in 1925 Palmer Park Boulevard Historic District Highland Park, MI.

The Douglas Apartments is a cousin of the Northcourse and also designed by Richard Marr.

[p69rrh51]

Thanks, p69rrh51, for this Kamper reference. I had not come across this during past research on him.

YW! He has always been one of my favorites. A good friend I have known for a few years and were chatting about Detroit architecture and she just happens to mention that Kamper is her great uncle [[I was thinking you know what I have been doing for awhile and you are just tell me this). Since then I have been trying to find as much as I can about him.

[p69rrh51]

A design by George J. Bery.



1125 Berkshire built in 1938 Grosse Pointe Park, MI.

[p69rrh51]

A design by J. H. Gustav Steffens.



26359 York built in 1928 Hill Historic District Huntington Woods, MI.

[p69rrh51]

Church by Donaldson & Meier.



Saint Benedict Roman Catholic Church 60 Church Street built in 1915 Highland Park, MI.

[p69rrh51]

I have several new images to post and I thought I would like to see whose design dyer's would like to see first. The list of architects are:

Almon C. Varney
Alvin Harley
John Scott & Co.
Richard Marr
Marcus Burrowes
Charles N. Agree
Clarence Day
Lewis C. Miller
W. C. Morris
Louis Kamper
Malcomson & Higginbotham
Herman & Simons
C. Howard Crane
John Kasurin
Walter Thulin
Meathe, Kessler & Assoc.
Minoru Yamasaki
Polmar & Ropes

Let me know who you want first.

[p69rrh51]

A design by William Henry Miller.



2931 East Jefferson Avenue built in 1889 East Jefferson Avenue Residential Historic District Detroit, MI.