These color photographs from 1899 are beautiful!
Detroit was on the ascent! Being a product of the Rust Belt (Cleveland, though, not Detroit), it wrings my heart to see these old beautiful cities fall into ruins. Will the glory days ever return?
After the first Central High School burned down, this beautiful building was constructed 3 years later at 4841 Cass Avenue. The building is still standing today and is known as Old Main.
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Fort Street Presbyterian Church, built in 1876, still stands tall at Fort and Third.
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Grand Circus Park in 1899
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A residential street in the 1899 Detroit booklet.
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old spirituals 