Local History

On Detroit's riverfront stands a bronze monument that marks one of the most dramatic chapters in American history. The Gateway to

Built during Detroit's Roaring Twenties boom, the Guardian Building is one of the most visually stunning Art Deco structures in th

In 1977, Henry Ford II made a $357 million bet that a glass tower on the Detroit riverfront could save a city in freefall. Here's

The 1893 Belle Isle Police Station has unusually large doors — and the reason why tells you everything about how the island used t

Michigan Central Station opened in 1913 as the tallest rail station in the world — then sat empty for 30 years as Detroit's most h

Long before the French planted a fort on the riverbank in 1701, Indigenous nations had already named this place. The word was Waaw