Indeed it was the "Ellis Island" for my elders. My parents, several of their siblings, cousins, etc. all migrated to Michigan from southern states ala the black south to north industrial migration of the 40's - 50's onward from trains at that station!! They did not fly in via Metro Airport.
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Nice article! Several other train stations that have undergone adaptive reuse were Cincinnati's Art Deco masterpiece, now a group of museums, and Indianapolis's Union Station, now like St. Louis... a marketplace.

The video clip mentions something that I chided the "rip it down" crowd on in previous threads.... that MCS is indeed our own Ellis Island.... but as is the case with Ellis Island, the vast throngs that came thru MCS as their entry portal to Detroit are mostly no longer alive...