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(first posted 9/4/2013) In 1957, I was a sickly 12-year-old English schoolboy when I went with my parents on a pilgrimage to General Motors headquarters in Detroit. My father, Maurice […]

Farmer Street, Detroit, 1910.

The Hotel Pontchartrain is legendary in Detroit, as were the events that took place within its walls; seven presidents are said to have strode down its halls, along with vaudeville stars, actors, actresses, thousands of out-of-towners & honeymooners, and is most important for its role as the cradle of the auto industry. It was a hotel that literally changed the world, but stood for only 13 years. *Click to read about this Detroit landmark, which after its demise was reborn in 1965.

Hotel Ponchartrain - Old photos gallery — Historic Detroit

Penobscot Building - Old photos — Historic Detroit

Detroit's haunting decline has been so well documented by urban explorers that to the outside world, it might seem like it's the only thing to know about this once great industrial metropolis. And yet undeniably, it's vast urban abandonment is intensely interesting. My latest guilty fascination is t

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Close-up of the intricate detail of the old library's main entrance — Photo from the Burton Historical Collection Detroit Public Library - Old photos — Historic Detroit