Detroit Free Press Building [SEP] architect
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Detroit News Complex


particularly in Detroit. In 1998, as part of the Joint Operation Agreement between the "News" and the "Detroit Free Press", "Free Press" staff vacated the Detroit Free Press Building and moved here. In 2014, the "Free Press" and "News" staff moved operations to leased space in the former Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch Building, and the Detroit News Building was sold to Bedrock Real Estate, a branch of Quicken Loans. The Detroit News complex consists of two buildings constructed in
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New Bethel Baptist Church (Detroit, Michigan)


next two years. On March 10, 1963, the church moved to the previously-dilapidated Oriole Theater at the corner of Linwood and Philadelphia in Detroit. Detroit architect Nathan Johnson oversaw the remodeling which cost more than $500,000. The project was Detroit's "first major all-Negro building project", using an architect, contractors, and financing from the African-American community. The "Detroit Free Press" described the new structure as follows: "The row of glass doors at the entrance and the vast expanse
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Marcus Burrowes


Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and became Emeritus in 1952. He was a member of the Episcopal Church and the Detroit Athletic Club. Burrowes died at the age of 79 at his home in London, Ontario, which he had retired to eight months previous. His obituary in the Detroit Free Press in 1953, stated how "he designed more than 1,000 structures in and near Detroit during his long career." Design of 11 buildings and campus landscape plan Fox, Jean M. "Marcus Burrowes, English Revival Architect"
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Engine House No. 11 (Detroit, Michigan)


The Engine House No. 11 is a fire station located at 2737 Gratiot Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It is the oldest remaining firehouse in the city of Detroit; it was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1975 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. According to the September 9, 1883, edition of the "Detroit Free Press", William Scott & Company was the architect of the building. Detroit's Engine Company No. 11 was organized as the "Steam Fire Engine Company #11
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Somerset Apartments


had a dentiled cornice with a white frieze below. The apartment building was an excellent example of high-quality middle-class residential architecture from the 1920s. The May 14, 1922 issue of the Detroit Free Press lists C. Howard Crane as the architect of the building. In the 2000s, the building was unused, and was slated for demolition by the city of Detroit. The Somerset Apartments was in a two-alarm fire on November 23, 2013. It was damaged beyond repair and was demolished 7 months later.
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El Tovar Apartments


The El Tovar Apartments is an apartment building located at 320 East Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan, in the East Grand Boulevard Historic District. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. Often attributed to the firm of Wiedmaier & Gay, the December 6, 1928 edition of the Detroit Free Press lists Robert J. West as the architect of the building. The El Tovar Apartment building is an excellent example of Spanish Moorish/Art Deco style. The El Tovar Apartments is a 4-and-a-half
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Detroit Free Press Building


The Detroit Free Press Building is an office building designed by Albert Kahn Associates in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Construction began in 1924 and was completed in 1925. The high-rise building contains on 14 above-ground and two basement levels. The building features Art Deco detailing, and is a steel-frame structure faced with limestone. Its design features stepped massing in the central tower and flanking wings. When constructed, the building housed editorial and business offices for the paper as well as printing facilities and rental space. The
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Detroit Free Press


a half years of the strike. The strike was resolved in court three years later, and the unions remain active at the paper, representing a majority of the employees under their jurisdiction. In 1998, the "Free Press" vacated its former headquarters in downtown Detroit and moved to offices into the "News" building. They were in the same building on June 26 of that year. On August 3, 2005, Knight Ridder sold the "Free Press" to the Gannett Company, which had previously owned and operated
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WJR


in what is considered "one of the best Art Deco transmitter buildings ever." Its studios are located in the Fisher Building in Detroit's New Center area. A tower atop the Fisher Building is used for transmitting WJR's audio to the transmitter; at one time WJR-FM (currently WDVD) used that tower to broadcast its signal. WJR began as WCX on May 4, 1922, owned by the Detroit Free Press newspaper, operating at 580 kHz from the "Free Press" Building. It shared this frequency
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Detroit Free Press Building


building is adorned with bas-relief figures, sculpted by Ulysses A. Ricci, symbolizing commerce and communication. The building, located at 321 West Lafayette, has been unoccupied since the newspaper offices moved in 1998. It was formerly the home of the "Detroit Free Press", and while occupied by the newspaper, displayed large neon signs of the newspaper logo on its roof facing north and south. Printing facilities for the newspaper occupied the lower floors of the building until 1979, when a new production facility opened approximately one-
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Detroit Media Partnership


renamed after Gannett sold "The Detroit News" to MediaNews Group, and purchased the "Detroit Free Press" from Knight Ridder. Each paper now publishes separate editions Monday through Saturday, with the Detroit Free Press publishing the Sunday newspaper. In February 2014, the Partnership announced all three units would occupy six floors in both the old and new sections of former Detroit Branch Building of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. The partnership anticipated completing the move before September and expected to place a sign on the exterior. In 2016 the
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Old Mayo Free Press Building


The Old Mayo Free Press Building, built in 1888 to house the Mayo Free Press newspaper, is an historic 20x40-foot wooden frame building located at 124 Fletcher Street, North (State Road 51) in Mayo, Florida. In 1989, it was listed in "A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture" prepared by the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects and published by the University of Florida Press. The Mayo Free Press later moved to a brick office building on the corner of San Pedro and Main street, which
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The Detroit News


now WDIV-TV. In 1989, the paper entered into a 100-year joint operating agreement with the rival "Free Press", combining business operations while keeping separate editorial staffs. The combined company is called the Detroit Media Partnership (DMP). The "Free Press" moved into "The News" building in 1998 and until May 7, 2006, the two published a single joint weekend edition. Today, "The News" is published Monday–Saturday, and has an editorial page in the Sunday "Free Press
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Detroit Free Press Building


mile southwest at 1801 West Jefferson Avenue. The newspaper offices are now located in the building Albert Kahn designed for The Detroit News at 615 West Lafayette. Because the News Building is only three stories, it is constructed of reinforced concrete and faced with concrete fashioned to look like stone. When Free Press offices moved into the building, they occupied the southern portion and used the address of 600 West Fort Street while The News used its long-time address of 615 West Lafayette. In February 2014, both newspapers announced their intent
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Wayne State University Press


publications, including "Yamasaki in Detroit: A Search for Serenity" by author John Gallagher and "The Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Grace, Grit, and Glory", by authors Laurie Lanzen Harris and Paul Ganson, as well as the Made in Michigan Writers Series. WSU Press is located in the Leonard N. Simons Building designed by famed architect Albert Kahn and is located on Wayne State University's main campus in the heart of Midtown Detroit; one block south of Warren Avenue and two blocks south of the Detroit Institute of Arts
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The Detroit News


The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The paper began in 1873, when it rented space in the rival "Detroit Free Press" building. "The News" absorbed the "Detroit Tribune" on February 1, 1919, the "Detroit Journal" on July 21, 1922, and on November 7, 1960, it bought and closed the faltering "Detroit Times". However, it retained the "Times"' building, which it used as a
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Downtown Detroit


to relocate its corporate headquarters to Dallas. The company executives began moving to Dallas in November 2007. At one time Real Times Media, the owner of black newspapers in the United States, had its headquarters in the Globe Tobacco Building, and later the Buhl Building. The Detroit Media Partnership, housing both "The Detroit News" and the "Detroit Free Press", has its headquarters in Downtown Detroit. The "Metro Times" was previously headquartered in the Detroit Cornice and Slate Company Building in Downtown. Downtown Detroit has
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Detroit newspaper strike of 1995–97


. The company switched printing of that edition to a more secure facility in Toledo, Ohio. In September 1996, columnist and strike supporter, Susan Watson, was terminated from the Detroit Free Press for participating in a sitdown strike at the Detroit Free Press Building. The unions ended their strike on February 14, 1997. The strike was costly for the labor unions, such as the Teamsters paying about toward legal fees and strike benefits. Following the strike, management indicated they would not fire any of the replacement workers, and
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Lafayette Building (Detroit)


deadline came, Detroit Mayor Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. canceled demolition plans due to a public outcry to save the landmark. The future for the Lafayette Building was still uncertain, as this was a temporary halt. On June 25, 2009, Detroit's Downtown Development Authority voted unanimously to destroy the Lafayette Building. The DDA voted to give the demolition contract to Detroit-based Adamo Demolition. for a lump sum amount of $1,445,888, according to an article in the Detroit Free Press. On July 12, 2009 it was disclosed
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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch Building


Reserve Bank moved to a new building at 1600 East Warren Avenue, leaving the building on Fort empty. A developer purchased the building with the intention of creating loft space. However, Dan Gilbert purchased the building on January 30, 2012. In February 2014, the Detroit Media Partnership, parent of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, announced all three organizations would occupy six floors in both the old and new sections of the building. The partnership expected to place signs on the exterior similar to those on the former
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Norm Augustinus


in an invention contest and won a cash award for a mailbox transmitter device. A certificate and cash prize was presented to Augustinus during the dedication and open house of the Manufacturing Resource and Productivity Center. An inventor, his gadgets have been featured in publications and television shows (USA Today, Detroit Free Press Detroit Free Press Detroit News Cadillac Evening News Detroit Free Press Weekly World News Detroit Free Press Magazine Royal Oak Tribune The Pioneer The Oakland Press and countless others) across the United States. Augustinus' highly viewed 'iPhone Colon
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Media in Detroit


As the world's traditional automotive center, Detroit, Michigan, is an important source for business news. The Detroit media are active in the community through such efforts as the "Detroit Free Press" high school journalism program and the Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund of Detroit. Wayne State University offers a widely respected journalism program. The daily newspapers serving Detroit are the "Detroit Free Press" and "The Detroit News", both broadsheet publications that are published together under a joint operating agreement. The "Detroit Free Press"
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Crystal Bradford


Coaches Association of Michigan and second team all-state by the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News as a junior ... earned Class B all-state honors from the Associated Press, second-team all-state honors from the Detroit News and third-team all-state honors from the Detroit Free Press as a sophomore ... earned second-team All-Detroit honors from the Detroit Free Press and first team honors from the Detroit News as a sophomore ... was rated the No. 15 player in the country entering her junior
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Detroit Financial District


1959 International Style National Bank of Detroit Building, the 1920 First National Building, the 1925 Buhl Building, the 1909 Ford Building, the 1912 Chrysler House, and the 1925 Detroit Free Press Building. Eighteen of these buildings initially housed banks or financial institutions; many of the remainder were used for office space. The buildings below are listed in rough geographic order beginning from the southeast corner of the district (the intersection of Woodward and Jefferson) and proceeding northwest. The One Woodward Avenue Building (Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Building)
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Detroit Free Press


The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US. The Sunday edition is titled the Sunday Free Press. It is sometimes referred to as the "Freep" (reflected in the paper's web address, www.freep.com). It primarily serves Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw, and Monroe counties. The "Free Press" is also the largest city newspaper owned by Gannett, which also publishes "USA Today". The "Free Press" has received ten Pulitzer Prizes and four
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Grand Army of the Republic Building


deed stated that city must preserve the building as a memorial to Civil War veterans. The Detroit Free Press reported on April 7, 2007, that the GAR Building had been sold to Olympia Development, an arm of Ilitch Holdings, Inc. for a price of $220,500. The Ilitch family also owns the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers, as well as the United Artists Theatre Building. Olympia Development expected to renovate the building at a cost of $2 million, and use it to house staff, though the purchase
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Detroit Times


-of-the art printing press in Sterling Heights, Michigan, that replaced both, and is still in use to this day, publishing The News, the rival Free Press, (due to a joint operating agreement) and several other papers. The Times' building was demolished in 1978. The area where the "Detroit Times" was located is called Times Square, although the Square itself was removed to make way for the Rosa Parks Transit Center in 2009. The "Detroit Times" should not be confused with
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Adair County Democrat–Adair County Free Press Building


Adair County Democrat–Adair County Free Press Building is a historic building located in Greenfield, Iowa, United States. Designed by architect John Karl, it was completed in 1903. The two-story brick structure features an asymmetrical facade with four round arched openings, and a corbelled brick cornice. It was built by Edwin J. Sidey and his father John S. Sidey, who founded the "Adair County Democrat" in 1889, and was later renamed the "Adair County Free Press". Journalist Hugh Sidey was another of John
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Detroit Free Press


Emmy Awards. Its motto is "On Guard for Years". In 2018, the "Detroit Free Press" received two Salute to Excellence awards from the National Association of Black Journalists. The newspaper was launched by John R. Williams and his uncle, Joseph Campau, and was first published as the "Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer" on May 5, 1831. It was renamed to "Detroit Daily Free Press" in 1835, becoming the region's first daily newspaper. Williams printed the first issues on a Washington
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Detroit Financial District


three stories are set back slightly from the remainder of the building. The interior of the building features fine detailing and plaster stencilwork. The Detroit Free Press Building is a fourteen-story flat-roofed building with a steel frame faced with limestone. The building was designed by Albert Kahn and erected in 1925. The building is designed using the then-popular technique of a central mass with six-story wings to each side. On the exterior, medallions inset into the building depict historical newsmen. A restaurant and other retail
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Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft


Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft was a case that was heard before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in August 2002. The plaintiffs, Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Michigan Representative John Conyers, and Rabih Haddad argued that it was a violation of the First Amendment for the defendants, Attorney General Ashcroft, Chief Immigration Judge Creppy, and Immigration Judge Elizabeth Hacker, to apply a blanket ruling of the Creppy Directive in order to keep immigration hearings closed to the press and the public. The case affirmed 3
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Detroit Beer Company


Building—Wanda's Interior Images, Moore African Art, and Kente Kurtains & More, had over 750 invited guests in attendance. Including the Mayor of the City of Detroit, City Council Members, Judges, Members of the Board of Directors of Boysville of Michigan, NAACP Officials, and many Detroit Business Owners. News Articles followed with write-ups in The Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press, Crain's Detroit Business, Metro Times, On Detroit, and many others. The Detroit Opera House broke ground, restored
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Sep Ruf


Sep Ruf (full name Franz Joseph Ruf; 9 March 1908, in Munich – 29 July 1982, in Munich) was a German architect and designer, belonging to the Bauhaus group. He was one of the representatives of modern architecture in Germany after World War II. His elegant buildings received high credits in Germany and Europe and his German pavilion of the Expo 58 in Brussels, built together with Egon Eiermann, achieved worldwide recognition. He attended the Interbau 1957 in Berlin-Hansaviertel and was one of the three architects who
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Architects Building


The Architects Building is an office building located at 415 Brainard Street in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The Architects Building is a seven-story building built in 1924 by Thomas J. Thompson, a man involved with the hotel and restaurant trade. Thompson hired Richard H. Marr, a well-known Detroit architect, to design the building. Its original purpose was to provide space for all architectural professionals and trades in one building. When the Architects Building opened, 25
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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch


loft space. In July 2011, Quicken Loans representatives were visiting the building, leading to speculation that Dan Gilbert would purchase the space. Gilbert announced the purchase on January 30, 2012. In February 2014, the Detroit Media Partnership, parent of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, announced all three organizations would occupy six floors in both the old and new sections of the building. The partnership anticipated completing the move before September and expected to place a sign on the exterior. With more than 12,000 square feet of
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Detroit Media Partnership


Detroit Media Partnership, L.P. manages the business operations - including production, advertising and circulation - for the two leading Detroit newspapers: "The Detroit News" and "Detroit Free Press". Detroit Media Partnership also handles Detroit-area circulation for "The New York Times", "USA Today", "Investor's Business Daily", and "Financial Times". Its headquarters are in Downtown Detroit. Detroit Media Partnership is the result of a 100-year joint operating agreement between the "Detroit Free Press" and "The
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Detroit Free Press


press he purchased from the discontinued "Oakland Chronicle" of Pontiac. It was hauled from Pontiac in a wagon over rough roads to a building at Bates and Woodbridge streets in Detroit. The hand-operated press required two men and could produce 250 pages per hour. The first issues were in size, with five columns of type. Sheldon McKnight became the first publisher with John Pitts Sheldon as editor. In the 1850s, the paper was developed into a leading Democratic publication under the ownership of Wilbur F. Storey. Storey left
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Architecture of metropolitan Detroit


sometimes called the "architect of Detroit", originally worked for John Scott, the architect of the Wayne County Building (1897). It opened as the second largest office building in the world. The seven Fisher brothers who owned the automotive company Fisher Body essentially gave architect Kahn a blank check to design and build the "most beautiful building in the world." This became Detroit's famous Fisher Building (1927) which, with its detailed work, has been called the city's "largest art object"; its
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Kilpatrick and Beatty text-messaging scandal


October, 2007, The Detroit Free Press requested all documents related to the settlement be released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act. Initially, the City of Detroit Counsel Corporation rejected the Detroit Free Press's Freedom of Information Act Request on the grounds that the settlement had not been reached. In January 2008, The Detroit Free Press examined and revealed the existence of more than 14,000 text messages exchanged between Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his then chief of staff Christine Beatty on their city issued SkyTel pagers between September–October 2002
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The Detroit News


went into effect March 30, 2009. "The News" has significantly lower print circulation than the "Free Press" (over 100,000 fewer copies, according to the Knight Ridder 2004 Annual Report). In February 2014, the DMP announced its offices along with those of "The News" and the "Free Press" would move from the West Lafayette building to six floors in both the old and new sections of the former Federal Reserve building at 160 West Fort Street. The partnership expected to place signs on the exterior
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Detroit Free Press


for the "Chicago Times" in 1861, taking much of the staff with him. In the 1870s ownership passed to William E. Quinby, who continued its Democratic leanings and established a London, England edition. In 1940, the Knight Newspapers (later Knight Ridder) purchased the "Free Press". During the following 47 years the "Free Press" competed with "The Detroit News" (and the "Detroit Times", until the "Times" ceased publication in November 1960) in the southeastern Michigan market.
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Detroit Free Press


"The Detroit News". Gannett , in turn sold "The News", to MediaNews Group; Gannett continues to be the managing partner in the papers' joint operating agreement. The "Free Press" resumed publication of its own Sunday edition, May 7, 2006, without any content from "The News." A quirk in the operating agreement, however, allows "The News" to continue printing its editorial page in the Sunday "Free Press." On December 16, 2008, Detroit Media Partnership (
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Cadillac Centre


retail and entertainment complex. The architect was Anthony Caradonna, an associate professor with Pratt Institute School of Architecture in New York City and a principal with the AC/2 Studio firm, whose recent projects have included the Hotel Duomo in Molfetta, Italy and the Bar Solex in New York City. The "Detroit Free Press" reported in early October 2008 that the New York-based developers were having trouble meeting their deadline, and the Detroit Economic Growth Corp rejected a revised $40 million proposal described as a "dressed-up parking
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Southwest Detroit Hospital


. The building has been completely hollowed out and sits plainly as a steel structure. A sign depicting a mixed-use development, including businesses, restaurants, and a second location of Detroit pizza chain Niki's Pizza, appeared on the property in May 2018; however, these claims have not been confirmed. According to the "Detroit Free Press", Kefallinos had been looking to lease the building to a third party. Many urban exploration bloggers and YouTubers who have visited the structure claim that it still contained leftover items from
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George Puscas (sports writer)


George Puscas (April 8, 1927 – April 25, 2008) was an American sports writer for the "Detroit Free Press". He joined the "Free Press" as a copyboy in September 1941 at age 14, was a full-time sports writer until 1992, and continued to be associated with the paper as a columnist until 2006. Puscas was born in Detroit in 1927. His father Nicholas Puscas was a grocer on Detroit's east side. After working at the "Free Press" as a teenager,
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1879 Michigan Wolverines football team


and the "Detroit Free Press" noted that an absurd report spread that the demonstration by the Michigan students "had some reference to that sad event." The game was scheduled to start at 2:00 p.m., but the players did not arrive on time. Attendance was reported at 500–600 persons by the "Detroit Free Press", though University of Michigan records place the figure at 1,500. Given the novelty of the game in Detroit, the "Free Press" devoted much of its coverage to educating readers on the rules and
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Detroit Free Press


highest circulation paper in the United States, and the combined "Detroit News and Free Press" was the country's fourth largest Sunday paper. On July 13, 1995, Newspaper Guild-represented employees of the "Free Press" and "News" and the pressmen, printers and Teamsters working for the "Detroit Newspapers" distribution arm went on strike. By October, about 40% of the editorial staffers had crossed the picket line, and many trickled back over the next months while others stayed out for the two and
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King's Building, London


central congregation spaces within the building, and is used for many events and activities, including the annual King's Fellows Dinner, banquetings, examinations, press conferences and presentations. The architect of Buckingham Palace, Sir John Nash, offered free services for the building and the Great Hall. However, this was declined by King's College. The College was in favour of the services of the architect of the British Museum, Sir Robert Smirke, since Smirke was already the architect of Somerset House. In the 21st century, the
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Detroit Financial District


the Peninsular Bank (1849). Other commercial establishments, including the offices of the Detroit Free Press, occupied the area along Jefferson near Griswold and the lots immediately north thereof. By the 1850s, commercial and banking interests had pushed northward to line the first few blocks of Griswold. In 1858, a Federal Building was constructed on the corner of Griswold and Larned, spurring the construction of substantial office buildings in the surrounding area along Griswold. Many of the office buildings constructed near the 1858 Federal Building housed at least one bank
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William Serrin


William G. Serrin Jr. (March 16, 1939 – February 22, 2018) was an American journalist for the "Detroit Free Press" and "New York Times". Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Serrin graduated from Central Michigan University in 1961. He began working for Booth Newspapers in 1964, and joined the "Detroit Free Press" staff two years later. In 1967, the "Free Press" won a Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting for its coverage of the Detroit riot to which Serrin contributed
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Mitch Albom


Smith Award winner Dave Kindred. In 2013, Albom was inducted into the National Sports Media Association (formerly the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association) Hall of Fame and his induction into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame was announced May 2017. Many of his columns have been collected into anthology books including "Live Albom I" (Detroit Free Press, 1988), "Live Albom II" (Detroit Free Press, 1990), "Live Albom III" (Detroit Free Press, 1992), and "Live Albom IV
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Detroit Free Press


The "Free Press" was delivered and sold as a morning paper while the "News" was sold and delivered as an evening newspaper. In 1987, the paper entered into a one hundred-year joint operating agreement with its rival, combining business operations while maintaining separate editorial staffs. The combined company is called the Detroit Media Partnership. The two papers also began to publish joint Saturday and Sunday editions, though the editorial content of each remained separate. At the time, the "Detroit Free Press" was the tenth
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Kyle Cook (American football)


) and named to SuperPrep's All-Midwest Team after being rated among the region's top 60 prospects (No. 55). He was listed among the state's top seniors by the "Lansing State Journal" (No. 14), "The Detroit News" (No. 20) and "Detroit Free Press" (No. 23) and named to the "Detroit Free Press" Dream Team and "The Detroit News" Class A All-State Team. Cook was selected to "The Detroit
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Sep Ruf


1593 to 1596. In the 17th century it was called the Herzog-Max-Burg. After it was destroyed in World War II., only the renaissance-tower was still standing. The city asked some architects to find ideas for the place and allowed to destroy the old tower. Only Ruf and Theo Papst were the two architects, who wanted to save it. So both got the order to build the New Maxburg. The steel skeleton building followed the structure of the tower and in the middle of the buildings
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Detroit Media Partnership


Detroit News". In 1987, the newspapers entered into the agreement, combining business operations while maintaining separate editorial staffs. The two papers also began to publish joint Saturday and Sunday editions, though the editorial content of each remained separate. At the time, the "Detroit Free Press" was the 10th highest circulation paper in the United States, and the combined "Detroit News" and "Free Press" was the country's fourth-largest Sunday paper. Originally called the Detroit Newspaper Agency, the company was reorganized and
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Detroit Free Press Marathon


The Detroit Free Press/Talmer Bank Marathon is a race run every October in Detroit, Michigan, United States and Windsor, Ontario, Canada since 1978. The predecessor to this race was the Motor City Marathon which started in 1963 and featured multiple laps on Belle Isle. The marathon course is international and has featured the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel for all but two years of its existence. From 1978 to 1998 the race started in Windsor and finished in Detroit. The current course crosses the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor
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Bennie Fowler III


by Scouts, Inc. at No. 80. He was also ranked among the state's top seniors by the "Lansing State Journal" at No. 15 overall, Rivals.com at No. 15 also, "The Detroit News" at No. 16, and the "Detroit Free Press" at No. 16. He was also named to the "Detroit Free Press" All-State Division 4 Team. He was also named All-State honorable mention as an all-purpose player by the Associated Press. He
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Lafayette Boulevard


Lafayette Boulevard (also referred to as Lafayette Street and Lafayette Avenue) is a major east-west street through the city of Detroit, extending from the southeast side through downtown into the southwest side, ending at Woodmere Cemetery. Lafayette Boulevard, like certain other east-west streets that had ended in southwest Detroit east of Woodmere Cemetery, reappears in the suburb of Lincoln Park, Michigan. The stretch through downtown Detroit is lined with structures including the Detroit Free Press Building and Greektown Casino Hotel. This list below shows the information
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Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation


original Violence Commission predicted that we would have a city of the future in which the middle class would escape to the suburbs, drive to work in sanitized quarters, and work in buildings protected by high tech. That city of the future has come true. An editorial in the "Detroit Free Press" said that city was Detroit. Domestic tranquility is roughly the same [in 1999 as in 1969] in spite of the increase in prison building. On the other hand, we haven't had an increase in justice.
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Sam Greene


the Texas League, came to the attention of "The Sporting News". He became the Beaumont correspondent for "The Sporting News" from 1920 to 1922. Greene moved to Detroit, Michigan in August 1922 as a sportswriter for the "Detroit Free Press". He spent a year-and-a-half with the "Free Press" before moving to "The Detroit News". He remained with the "News" for nearly 40 years. He also became the principal Detroit correspondent for "The Sporting News
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Decline of Detroit


areas to improve the delivery of essential city services, which the city has had significant difficulty providing (policing, fire protection, trash removal, snow removal, lighting, etc.). In February 2013 the "Detroit Free Press" reported the Mayor's plan to accelerate the program. The project has hopes "for federal funding to replicate it [the bulldozing plan] across the city to tackle Detroit’s problems with tens of thousands of abandoned and blighted homes and buildings." Bing said the project aims "to right
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Detroit Times


that Hearst's "limping" paper had been sold to The Evening News Association, owner of its "independently owned, well-heeled competitor," "The Detroit News". Reports of the sale also appeared that evening on Detroit radio station WXYZ (now WXYT) as well as in the early "bulldog" edition of the Detroit Free Press. The Free Press reported at the time that only one person at the Times, General Manager William H. Mills, knew of the imminence of the sale, and that H.G.
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Charles N. Agree


Charles Nathanial Agree (April 18, 1897 – March 10, 1982) was an American architect in Detroit, Michigan. Agree moved to Detroit in 1909 at the age of 12. He opened his firm in 1917 after graduating from the Detroit Y.M.C.A. Technical School. His first major commission was in 1921 to build the Whittier Hotel near the bank of the Detroit River. He later went on to design many office buildings, theaters, and ballrooms. Agree was one of the Detroit architects of the 1920s and 1930s who utilized the
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Terry Foster


The Grand Rapids Press". He later moved to the "Detroit Free Press" in 1982, where he covered high school sports in Macomb County. He stayed with the "Free Press" until 1988, when he left for "The Detroit News" after being approached by the newspaper for the second time. He earned his journalism degree from Central Michigan University and was once was a bartender and short order cook at the Lindell Athletic Club in downtown Detroit. From 1988 to 1994, he was the Pistons beat writer for
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Mitch Albom


News and Sun Sentinel", and eventually promoted to columnist. In 1985, having won that year’s Associated Press Sports Editors award for best Sports News Story, Albom was hired as lead sports columnist for the "Detroit Free Press" to replace Mike Downey, a popular columnist who had taken a job with the "Los Angeles Times". Albom’s sports column quickly became popular. In 1989, when the "Detroit Free Press" and the "Detroit News" merged weekend publications, Albom was asked to add a
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John R. Williams


trustees of the University of Michigan, was president of the Detroit Board of Education, and was a delegate to the first Michigan Constitutional Convention. In 1831, Willams and Joseph Campau started the "Democratic Free Press" newspaper, which became the "Detroit Free Press". Mary died on January 18, 1830. Williams died at the age of seventy-two on October 20, 1854. He is interred at Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit. Today, a street in metropolitan Detroit bears his name. "John R" Street
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Expo 58


pavilion was designed by the architects Egon Eiermann and Sep Ruf. The world press called it the most polished and sophisticated pavilion of the exhibition. The pavilion of Yugoslavia was designed by the architect Vjenceslav Richter, who originally proposed to suspend the whole structure from a giant cable-stayed mast. When that proved too complicated, Richter devised a tension column consisting of six steel arches supported by a pre-stressed cable, which stood in front of the pavilion as a visual marker and symbolized Yugoslavia's six constituent republics. Filled with
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Jim Schaefer


Jim Schaefer is an American journalist based in Detroit, Michigan, where he works as an investigative journalist for the "Detroit Free Press". Schaefer graduated from Ohio State University. He was an investigative producer for WXYZ-TV. He led an investigation into fentanyl. With the "Detroit Free Press", Schaefer was one member of a team that covered Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and uncovered the scandals that led to his 2008 resignation from office and criminal conviction. To break the case open, the reporters filed a Freedom
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Tod Rockwell


became a sports writer for the "Detroit Free Press". He spent 10 years at the "Free Press", writing about Michigan football, high school sports, yachting and Golden Gloves boxing. Rockwell left the "Free Press" in 1940 to join the United States Navy construction forces, known as the Seabees. Rockwell remained in the Navy throughout World War II. After the war, he managed "Sports Final", a sports publication in Detroit. He later accepted a civilian public relations position for the United States
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George Puscas (sports writer)


Puscas joined the military during World War II. Puscas had his first byline with the "Free Press" in October 1946. In his first few years with the paper, he was a student at Wayne University, and he covered the Wayne Tartars, University of Detroit, Lawrence Institute of Technology, and Detroit high school athletic events. When the Fort Wayne Pistons moved to Detroit in 1957, Puscas was assigned to the team's beat. Puscas also began handling the Detroit Lions beat for the "Free Press" in 1957
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Sep Ruf


1936-1938 he was ordered to build parts of the Werdenfels and the Kemmel barracks in Murnau, after the war they were used by the US army and German troops. As soon as possible he went back to the building of private houses. In 1939 Ruf had to go to war. From 1940 to 1942 he was allowed to stay at home because he worked as an independent architect with the family of Hugo Junkers. From 1934 to 1936, one year before his death, Junkers had allowed the 26-year-old architect
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Carlo Wolff


. In April of 2019, Wolff was co-author on Designing Victory, Robert P. Madison's memoir; in 1954, Madison was the first registered African-American architect in Ohio, and the 10th in the United States. The book was also published by Act 3. In 2003, Wolff made critical waves with his take on Mitch Albom's "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." Commissioned by the "Detroit Free Press", where Albom is a star columnist, it was suppressed by that newspaper and
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Sep Ruf


design and build the government buildings of the new capital city of the western part of Germany, Bonn. Every architect got his own part to realize. For example, the new upper house of the German parliament, the tower building of the delegates, the privat- and representative house of the chancellor of the Federal Republic. In 1963 and 1964 Ruf built the house for the chancellor. It was to be a house to live in and also to be a representative building to welcome guests of state. In a park beside the
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Royce Howes


Royce Bucknam Howes (January 3, 1901 – March 18, 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author who also published a biography of Edgar Guest and a number of crime novels. He worked for the "Detroit Free Press" from 1927–1966 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1955 for an editorial on the cause of an unauthorized strike by an autoworkers local that idled 45,000 Chrysler workers. Born in 1901 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Royce Howes moved to Detroit and began a long career with the "Detroit Free Press
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The Detroit News


" from the Knight Ridder company. With this move, Gannett became the managing partner in the papers' joint operating agreement. On May 7, 2006, the combined Sunday "Detroit News and Free Press" were replaced by a stand-alone Sunday "Free Press." On December 16, 2008, Detroit Media Partnership announced a plan to limit weekday home delivery for both dailies to Thursday and Friday only. On other weekdays the paper sold at newsstands would be smaller, about 32 pages, and redesigned. This arrangement
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Detroit Times


daily copies and 200,000 of the Sunday copies were printed on the Times’ presses. This acquisition is a major reason why for many years, The Detroit News could boast beneath its masthead of having "The Largest Evening Circulation In America," which was eventually downsized to "Michigan's Largest Newspaper." That lasted until The News was overtaken in daily circulation by the rival Detroit Free Press. The News would continue to use the Detroit Times' presses along with its own until 1975, when it opened a new, state
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Michigan State University College of Law


In 1937, the college broke ground and relocated itself in a new building at 130 East Elizabeth Street in Detroit, where it stayed until 1997. The Building was designed by architect George DeWitt Mason. It had been located at the former Detroit College of Medicine building on St. Antoine Street from 1892 to 1913; and the Detroit "YMCA" building from 1913 to 1924; the ground on which the building stood was under a 99 year lease from the YMCA. The last location of the Detroit College of Law in Downtown Detroit
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James A. Garfield School


the Detroit Free Press) designed in 1896 by E. A. Walshe & Son for the Springwells Township school district, replacing the previous four-room schoolhouse that had become drastically overcrowded. In 1907, the Springwells School District merged with the schools of Detroit. After the merger, the name of the building was changed to honor Frank H. Beard, the director of the Springwells school board for 17 years. The brick school is built in the Victorian Romanesque style. The symmetrical front façade is organized into five bays, with the central
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Joe Girard


Girard was the son of Antonino Girardi, "an extremely poor man of Sicilian birth" and his wife, a homemaker. Girard worked from early childhood on. A high school dropout, he started working as a shoeshine boy, then worked as a newsboy for the Detroit Free Press, dishwasher, delivery boy, stove assembler, and home building contractor. The then 35-year-old walked into a Detroit car dealership and begged a skeptical manager for a job as a salesman. He sold a car on his first day and
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U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence


the "Detroit Free Press" said that city was Detroit. Domestic tranquility is roughly the same [in 1999 as in 1969] in spite of the increase in prison building. On the other hand, we haven’t had an increase in justice. We have 25 percent of all our young children living in poverty. We have the greatest inequality in terms of wealth and income and wages in the world. One of every three African-Americans is in prison, on probation or on parole at any one time – and
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Metro Times


The Detroit Metro Times is an alternative weekly located in Detroit, Michigan. It is the largest circulating weekly newspaper in the metro Detroit area. Supported entirely by advertising, it is distributed free of charge every Wednesday in newsstands in businesses and libraries around the city and suburbs. Compared to the two dailies, the "Detroit Free Press" and the "Detroit News", the "Metro Times" has a leftist orientation, like its later competitor "Real Detroit Weekly". Average circulation for the "Metro Times" is
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Detroit Beer Company


and surgical supply company. Malcomson & Higginbotham, architects, 1902. J. Frederick Hartz, the namesake of this building, was Chairman of the board of the J.F. Hartz Company, suppliers of medical supplies and surgical instruments for physicians, nurses, hospitals and sick rooms. Malcomson and Higginson, architects, were issued the building permit for the construction of the building for Hartz. It was to cost an estimated $15,000. Also located in the Hartz Building in 1907 were Silverman Bernd, cigar manufacturer; the Detroit Medical Journal Company
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Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft


wanted. Therefore, the court ruled that it could not apply the Creppy Directive and label this case a special interest one in order to close it to the public and press. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals decided "North Jersey Media Group, Inc. v. Ashcroft", a similar case to "Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft", in October 2002 but decided in favor of Ashcroft and the immigration courts instead of the Plaintiff. North Jersey Media Group feared that as a result of the Creppy Directive, it would be closed
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Marcus Burrowes


the architecture program from Cornell University. Together, Burrowes and Eurich designed many homes in Grosse Pointe and Detroit, as well as several libraries and municipal buildings. During his lifetime, Burrowes was recognized by his fellow architects. He served as president of the Detroit Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1916 and 1917; vice-president of the Detroit Chapter in 1923, and secretary from 1911 to 1915. He served as president of the Michigan Society of Architects in 1923 and 1924. In 1940, he was made a
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Fort Shelby Hotel


building to three twenty-something investors who reopened it as The Shelby Hotel, a hotel/apartment complex geared toward youth in 1974, however, this was short-lived and it soon closed again. For many years, the Anchor Bar, a popular watering hole for workers at the nearby Detroit News and Detroit Free Press remained the only tenant until it relocated in 1994. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Preliminary preparation for renovation work began in June 2006. It consisted of structural
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1885 Michigan Wolverines football team


about 200 spectators. Michigan took a 16-0 lead in the first inning with four touchdowns, a field goal (kicked by J. E. Duffy), and two rouges. The Wolverines added 26 points in the second inning, including touchdowns by Prettyman and McNeil. The "Detroit Free Press" wrote that the game was a mismatch:"It was evident from the start that the Detroit team were no match for the others, nearly all the men being very light, while the visitors were all of good size and strong build.
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The Detroit News


bricked-in arches on the east and south ends of the building were reopened during renovations required when the "Free Press" relocated its offices there 20 years later. In 1931, "The Detroit News" made history when it bought a three place Pitcairn PCA-2 auto-gyro as a camera aircraft which could take off and land in restricted places and semi-hover for photos. It was the ancestor of today's well known news helicopter. In 1935 a single Lockheed Model 9 Orion was purchased and modified by Lockheed as
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Hammond Building


. He suffered broken limbs and internal injuries. The Detroit Free Press anticipated his demise as they reported the fall to be fatal. Tenants varied over the years of operation. In 1911 the Dime Savings Bank was a tenant prior to construction of the Dime Building. In 1911, the United States Department of Agriculture occupied the building. Other tenants, were of a smaller nature, like J. A. Mercier a general contractor, who wrote to the Hammond Building Company to advise them that outside workmen may "invariably come to (his
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Detroit


Press" and "The Detroit News" are the major daily newspapers, both broadsheet publications published together under a joint operating agreement called the Detroit Newspaper Partnership. Media philanthropy includes the "Detroit Free Press" high school journalism program and the Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund of Detroit. In March 2009, the two newspapers reduced home delivery to three days a week, print reduced newsstand issues of the papers on non-delivery days and focus resources on Internet-based news delivery. The "Metro Times", founded in 1980
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Harmonie Club (Detroit, Michigan)


group of Detroit Germans founded a singing group, the "Gesang-Verein Harmonie". The club built a frame clubhouse at the corner of Lafayette and Beaubien in 1874. This frame Harmonie Club structure burned in 1893, and the club almost immediately organized a competition, open to German architects, to design a new building. Richard Raseman (the architect of the Grand Army of the Republic Building) won the competition; the resulting building sits across from Harmonie Park. The Harmonie Club is a four-story, hipped-
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Architecture of metropolitan Detroit


opulent three story barrel vaulted lobby is constructed with forty different kinds of marble. Albert Kahn Associates chief architect for the Fisher Building was Joseph Nathaniel French. The Fisher Building and Cadillac Place are among the National Historic Landmarks in Detroit anchoring the city's historic New Center. Architect Wirt C. Rowland played an integral role in crafting the city's historic skyline with his designs for the Buhl, Penobscot, and Guardian buildings. Rowland's design for the Buhl Building (1925) included a Gothic Revival design with a clever blend of Romanesque
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Michigan Science Center


companies completed the new addition, GunnLevine Architects (Architect of Record) and DeMaria Building Company. On September 26, 2011, the Detroit Science Center closed due to monetary issues. Several planned events, programs, and trips were either postponed or rescheduled to take place at the Detroit Children's Museum. (Ironically, the Detroit Children's Museum itself was closed in December 2011 due to financial difficulties, but reopened in February 2012 solely to Detroit Public School students and lacking Detroit Science Center affiliation.) On September 7, 2012
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Brown Brothers Tobacco Company


Civil War veteran who received honorable discharge, having been a private in an Ohio regiment. In the late 1800s, Brown moved to Detroit and started a fire insurance, real estate and lumber business with his brother John (who had previously moved to Detroit) on Griswold Street in Detroit. They later started the cigar business on Monroe Avenue and John managed the enterprise. In 1887, famed Detroit architect, Gordon W. Lloyd designed the company's new building at 119 State Street in Detroit. Lloyd was an influential architect and an
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Brown Brothers Tobacco Company


Brown Brothers Tobacco Company , was located at 119 State Street in Detroit. The building was built for brothers, Robert Hamilton Brown and John Brown who founded a cigar manufacturing business which was, at one time, the largest cigar factory under one roof in the world. Brown Brothers were known for the following cigar brands: Newsboys, Cremo, Fontella, Carmencita, Evangeline and Detroit Free Press. Robert Brown, born in Ohio of Irish descent, and his brother, John H. Brown, founded the firm. Robert was a
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Rochelle Riley


Rochelle Riley, an African-American female journalist and columnist for the "Detroit Free Press" in Detroit, Michigan, United States, has been an advocate in her column for improved race relations, literacy, community building, and children. Rochelle Riley grew up in Tarboro, North Carolina. Her mother Marva Jeanne Pitt Riley, passed at the age 78, and her siblings include her sister, Beverley Riley, her brother, Donald Riley and her sister, Maria Riley. She was raised by her grandfather Willie Bennie Pitt
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Robert Seppings


Sir Robert Seppings, FRS (11 December 176725 April 1840) was an English naval architect. Seppings was born to Robert and Lydia Seppings at Fakenham, Norfolk, on 11 December 1767 and baptised three days later. In 1782 he was apprenticed in HMNB Devonport, Plymouth. In 1800, when he had risen to be master shipwright assistant in the yard, he invented a device which greatly reduced the time required to repair the lower portions of ships in dry dock when compared with the laborious process of lifting then in vogue.
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Detroit race riot of 1863


The Detroit race riot of 1863 occurred on March 6, 1863, in the city of Detroit, Michigan, during the American Civil War. At the time, the "Detroit Free Press" reported these events as "the bloodiest day that ever dawned upon Detroit." It began due to unrest among the working class related to racism and the military draft, which was heightened after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln. Based in a free state, some recent immigrants and other workers resented being drafted for a
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General Post Office, Sydney


press that "The style chosen for the design is Italian Renaissance, and was necessarily adapted to the uses of the building and the nature of the site." The building has been variously identified as a form derived from a filtered Classicism with its roots in the Renaissance. In particular, its free use of Classical motifs finds its roots in the works of English architect and historian Charles Robert Cockerell. Today, the style in which the facade has been articulated is variously identified as Victorian Free Classical or the Italian Renaissance Palazzo Style
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Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft


14, 2001, Rabih Haddad, a Lebanese national, was arrested after his temporary visa had expired. He was operating an Islamic charity that was suspected to be channeling funds to a terrorist organization. In light of the recent September 11 attacks and the Creppy Directive, the Government labeled his case as special interest. Haddad was then denied bail and detained, and his case was closed from public and the press. Believing this closure to be a violation to First Amendment rights to speech and press, The Detroit News, Detroit
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John A. Bloomingston


Club field in Detroit. A crowd of 4,000 watched, the "Detroit Free Press" wrote that "Bloomingston carried off the batting honors with two homers and a single." Bloomingston's first home run came in the fifth inning and was described by the "Free Press" as follows: Bloomingston came to bat with blood in his eye. He caught one of [Cornell pitcher] Smith's twisters on the nose and the ball landed in the crowd in the stand in left field. ... In a second the stands
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