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- Description:
- Located between West Hillsdale Street and West Lenawee Street. City Planning Division staff annotated the photo.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing City Planning Division Photographs
- Description:
- Exterior view of the Palms Apartment Building on East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan designed by architects, George D. Mason and Albert Kahn. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. "The Palms is a six-story apartment building is U-shaped in plan with wings extending on the rear side and has irregular-coursed, rough-face limestone facades, the front facade has a central entrance with classical surrounds, with its engaged, octagonal corner towers, four-story bay window above the entrance, belt courses and roof balustrade, the facade treatment is primarily English Renaissance in style, the lot on which the Palms is located slopes downward at the rear causing the high basement, visible on the front facade, to become a fully exposed story on the rear facade ... the Palms is a relatively early and significant building in the career of its architect, Albert Kahn, the building marks the beginning of his use of steel-reinforced concrete, a technique which he later perfected in his industrial structures, Kahn, then in partnership with George D. Mason, used reinforced concrete for the floor in the Palms while the walls were constructed of load-bearing masonry," from the Michigan State Historic Sites Online website.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Exterior view of a five-story brick apartment building identified as Phelps Manor in Detroit, Michigan.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1912-05-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Perhaps taken from the lantern atop the dome of the State Capitol The State buildings, beginning on the left - using their names as of 2016 - are the Richard H. Austin Building, Stevens T. Mason Building, John A. Hannah Building, Ottawa Building, G. Mennon Williams Building, Murray D. Van Wagoner Building. On the left, part of the Lansing Civic Center is seen. The high-rise building on the right in the rear is Lansing Towers apartments. In the plaza, directly above the roof of the Capitol, is the multi-part sculpture named "This Equals That" by Michael Heizer; built 1976-1980 and removed in 2004. West Michigan Avenue resumes beyond the complex. Walnut Street is in the foreground passing beneath the walkway to the plaza.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing City Planning Division Photographs
- Description:
- Townhouses located on South Capitol Avenue. Located at 309-317 Capitol Avenue North.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Taken from the roof of the State Capitol. The State buildings, beginning on the left are the Richard H. Austin Building, Stevens T. Mason Building, John A. Hannah Building, Ottawa Building, G. Mennon Williams Building, Murray D. Van Wagoner Building. The high-rise building on the right in the rear is Lansing Towers apartments. In the plaza, directly above the roof of the Capitol, is the multi-part sculpture named "This Equals That" by Michael Heizer; built 1976-1980 and removed in 2004. West Michigan Avenue resumes beyond the complex.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing City Planning Division Photographs
- Description:
- View is northwest from Capitol Avenue North and Ottawa Street West. Central Methodist Church is on the corner. Behind it are seen the Roosevelt Hotel, St. Mary's Cathedral, and Ferris Towers apartments. Partially obstructed to the right is the First Baptist Church. Part of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church is to the left in the photo.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing City Planning Division Photographs
- Description:
- View of the Fyfe Building and Central United Methodist Church on Adams Road at Grand Circus Park in Detroit, Michigan. The Fyfe Building was designed by the Detroit architectural firm of Smith, Hinchman and Grylls (now the SmithGroup), a neo-gothic high-rise building with 14 stories, it was completed in 1919 and now houses apartments. Central United Methodist Church is also a neo-gothic style building designed by architect Gordon W. Lloyd.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1929-01-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- A row of stone townhouses built in 1887, located on South Capitol Avenue.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Looking directly south along the east side of Townsend are the YWCA, an apartment building, Reutter Park, and Hotel Porter. Directly ahead in the photo are the United States Federal building and Post Office, Michigan Bar Association, Auto-Owners Insurance, YMCA, and buildings comprising the General Motors-Oldsmobile complex. To the right, the Estes-Leadley funeral home is seen.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing City Planning Division Photographs
