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Evans Avenue Between Vandeventer and East Prairie Avenues
I know I’ve photographed these apartment buildings before, but for the life of me I can’t find that post now. But what is there to say? It’s totally depressing. Almost everything on this street is...
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Lee Avenue Between Marcus and North Newstead Avenues
Things continue to look great crossing over Marcus Avenue as we remain in the Penrose neighborhood heading east on Lee Avenue. A first appears, which is multi-family housing, as seen above. But then...
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Lee Avenue Between North Newstead and Warne Avenues
I don’t know what it is, but as soon as you cross over North Newstead Avenue into the Fairgrounds neighborhood, the trail drops out from underneath you. The housing stock is older, and that definitely...
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Fout Place, July 2023
I thought I would check up on the house at Fout Place and see how–oh wait, what am I talking about? Of course it’s doing terrible, just like the last six times I visited! I’ll have to admit recently...
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LaSalle Street Revisited and the Art-Deco, Chicago
I looked at LaSalle Street briefly back in June of 2008, taking photos of the Rookery, Chicago Board of Trade and another bank. In July of 2008 I featured a skyscraper that had been “chopped off” and...
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Survivors, Chicago, August 2023
We’ll finish up Chicago by looking at those vestiges from the past that survived the rapid gentrification and rebuilding of the central core of the Windy City which has happened over the last forty...
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From the Vault: Gary, Indiana
This is Gary, Indiana. A city only founded in 1906, which peaked at a population of 178,320 in 1960, an increase of 33% from the 1950 federal census. In the most recent census of 2020, it has dropped...
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Brush Park, Detroit
Vergara, Camilo J, photographer. View of Brush Park from Edmund Pl. along John R St., Detroit. United States Michigan Detroit, 1998. Photograph. Perhaps there is no better place to start our...
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Woodward Avenue, Churches and Other Buildings, Detroit
Siegel, Arthur S, photographer. Untitled photo, possibly related to: Detroit, Michigan. Looking north on Woodward Avenue from the Maccabee Building, with the Fisher Building at the far left and the...
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North Brush Park and Eastern Market, Detroit
We head back south on Woodward Avenue to the 1888 Frank J. Hecker House, which sits on the northeast corner of East Ferry Street. Hecker was a partner of Charles Lang Freer, and together they made a...
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Mount Elliott Cemetery, Detroit
For some reason, Mount Elliott Cemetery, part of a constellation of other cemeteries, no longer promotes itself as a Catholic burial ground, though it opened as one in 1841, making it the oldest in...
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Former Ford Piquette and Fisher Body Plants, Detroit
Henry Ford’s Piquette Avenue Plant remains one of the most important locations in industrial and consumer history, serving as the factory where the famous Model T, as well as a whole other alphabet or...
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The Grande Ballroom and Grand River Avenue, Detroit
One place I wanted to visit in Detroit was the Grande Ballroom on Grand River Avenue, northwest of downtown. While the building has been abandoned for decades, it once played a pivotal role in the...
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East Grand Boulevard, Detroit
Terminating at the MacArthur Bridge, which leads out to Belle Isle, East Grand Boulevard stretches to the north-northwest, and is lined with fine houses that date to the early Twentieth Century. It...
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St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, Detroit
St. Aloysius is another example of a “downtown” Roman Catholic parish, much like St. Peter’s which we just saw back in Chicago. And like St. Peter’s it received an updated building in the Twentieth...
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Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Cathedral, Toledo
I didn’t realize it, but Toledo is a diocese, and the cathedral is located northwest of downtown. The current cathedral was completed in 1940, after an earlier school and chapel dedicated to St....
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Vistula Historic District, Toledo
Down by the approaches to the Veterans’ Glass City Skyway Bridge is the Vistula Historic District, which retains some amazing architecture. The majority of my phots are from along East Superior...
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Downtown, Part One, Cleveland
Downtown Cleveland is tucked into a triangular wedge northeast of the the Flats, in perhaps what is the closest physical relationship of an American city’s core to its industrial heart. Much of the...
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Downtown, Part Two, Cleveland
Moving along through downtown Cleveland, we reach the “Beaux-Arts” or “City Beautiful” portion of the city, which every metropolitan area seemed to have dabbled with in the early Twentieth Century to...
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Lake View Cemetery and Little Italy, Cleveland
A little bit of a latecomer in the Rural Cemetery Movement, Lake View Cemetery was founded in 1869, east of downtown Cleveland on rugged, steep terrain. While due to the growth of the city and mature...
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