Tag: Michigan
Our Savior
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places due to its fascinating history and its amazing architecture, the Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Michigan is one that needs to be sav…
King Solomon Baptist Church
Located in the Northwest Goldberg neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, King Solomon Baptist Church's facility at Marquette and 14th Street was best known for becoming a popular venue for influential bla…
Eastern Catholic High School
Driving down Gratiot Avenue in Detroit, Michigan late night in the summer of 2011, I came across the former Eastern Catholic High School. The obviousness of its abandonment, with its blown out windows…
The Packard
The Packard Automotive Plant in Detroit, Michigan has long been on my list of abandonments to visit. Known for its extensive deterioration, brought about by decades of underutilization and neglect, an…
Biggest Population Losses
After a recent drive through Cairo, Illinois (article forthcoming), and seeing the effects of decades of racial segregation and violence, and then economic decline and population loss, I wondered what…
Railroads of the Upper Peninsula
While on an expedition to the upper peninsula of Michigan, namely to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, I stumbled across two abandoned railroads.…
Deerton, Michigan
Deerton, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Alger County, Michigan, was founded in 1882 when the Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette Railroad constructed a station for a lumbering camp. A post off…
Packard Motors
The Packard Motor Company on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan was constructed in 1903 and closed in 1958. With just the exception of a brief reuse in several locations, the entire complex - 3…
Rightsizing in Saginaw, Michigan
The streets of West Saginaw are bleak this time of year. This is partially the effect of the season: indifferent gray skies, cutting Michigan winds, trees still and bare.
However, the austerity of …
Detroit Plans on Downsizing for the Future
It's a pretty sad situation when a city plans on downsizing to embody the future.
But that is what Detroit Mayor Dave Bing plans on doing in the near future. Plagued with neighborhoods almost entir…
