The morning sunlight pours into the high ceilinged room. George D. Mason’s photographer captures the newly furnished coffee room for the Detroit Yacht Club in 1922. Mason, Yacht Club's architect, also designed the Grand Hotel, Detroit Masonic Temple and the Gem Theatre in Detroit. A collection of photos of the clubhouse from 1922 reveal a lounge, kitchen, pool, nursery, grill, library, dining...
In the first half of the twentieth century, with an influx in population and with large numbers of African Americans and other minorities making their way to the city, affordable housing became a salient issue in many American metropolises. The Brewster Housing Group was a housing project on the east side of Detroit. The Brewster Housing projects (constructed between 1935-1955), which would eventually...
The thirteen sisters of Julia Street started a new trend. These "sisters" were a row of thirteen side-hall style town houses that spanned the 600 block of Julia Street in New Orleans. Upon their construction by the New Orleans Building Company in 1833, they were among first rows constructed in the side-hall, or London-plan, manner most commonly seen in Philadelphia and Baltimore. The exteriors combined...
The Greek Revival sprung into the American architectural landscape just as quickly as it disappeared lasting only from the 1820s to 1850s. A typical result from the movement was a James Gallier product that was part of the "Three Sisters" and constructed on Rampart Street in New Orleans in conjunction with two other Greek Revival town homes. Originally built in 1834 as a residential structure, it...
This building serves as a symbol of the innovation that the Cotton Exchange implemented in its field of industry. The exterior of the building appears to be a typical 1921 classically inspired design. The architects, Favrot and Livaudais, who built several of the buildings in the area, designed the eight story steel framed structure. They believed that they created a new style of building because they...