Yes, you can actually buy a house for $500. And it could be the best thing you’ll ever do. Or the worst.
The origin stories behind some of the city’s best-known neighborhoods, like Bagley, Palmer Woods, and New Center.
I keep coming back to Detroit. It's bizarre how photogenic the downfall of America’s industrial powerhouse can be. However there's an eerie and unwanted sense of responsibility to be felt when looking through these before & after photographs of Detroit taken in 1973 and 2010 by the same photogra
Detroit is a city that has been through a lot. It has gone from a wealthy industrial city to a city in ruins and then attempting to revive ...
This print was featured in DBusiness last year year and I love it. The Renaissance Center is obviously a dominating fixture of the city skyline. It lacks the fine architectural detail I admire bu…
Yes, you can actually buy a house for $500. And it could be the best thing you’ll ever do. Or the worst.
Fifty years ago Detroit was among the richest cities in the world and offered perhaps the best quality of life of any city in America. Today, it is bankrupt, the most dangerous place in the country, boasts 78,000 abandoned homes, and 47% of its people cannot even read or write.
c. 1929 Tudor Style House For Sale in Detroit, MI. $100,000 3656 Bedford St, Detroit, MI. $100,000 Pending 5 Bed / 2 Bath / 2,397 sq ft P
You can experience the best that Detroit has to offer without spending a dime. These things are amazing and full of so much fun.
Detroiters lined up for blocks Nov 1 to get a look inside Ransom Gillis House. The newly created duplex, restored by HGTV star Nicole Curtis, received almost overwhelming praise from crowds...
In 1826, Joseph Nicephore Niepce, a French inventor, came up with what forever changed the way we see, experience, and remember the world and its history. It was the birth of a camera that took the first photograph on a piece of paper coated with tar of the view from his window at Le Gras. Of course, it looked nothing even remotely similar to what we think of as a camera.
Launched in 1986 to call attention to neglect of Detroit's neighborhoods, Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project will be dismantled.
A Detroit-born photographer documented his city in the early 1970s; he returns to the same sites 40 years later.
While "This Old House" has racked up 18 Emmy Awards since its inception in 1979, the PBS show highlighting remodeling projects has never ventured into Detroit. That will change once the 37th starts filming when the show highlights a 1939-build Russell Woods home, according to a press release.
Curious about how to find the history of your Detroit home? We’re here to help!
Detroit's population has fallen steadily since the heyday of the auto industry in the 1950s, when it peaked around two million, to just ...
After college, as my friends left Michigan for better opportunities, I was determined to help fix this broken, chaotic city by building my own home in the middle of it. I was 23 years old.
Following up on our popular article profiling Detroit's most interesting houses, we're featuring nine more, and sent Nick Hagen out to photograph them.
A Detroit-born photographer documented his city in the early 1970s; he returns to the same sites 40 years later.
