Ruins
The Turret
Through the years
How is might have looked
Ransom Gillis
Alfred Street Pictures and Maps
Henry T. Brush and Jeanie Flora Campbell
Structures of Henry T. Brush
Alanson J. Fox
Speaches of Alanson J. Fox
Pewabic Pottery
The Essa's
The Storefront
1943 Detroit Riot
Urban renewal?
Population Change in Detroit
Rise of Architecture in Detroit
Movie Cameos
le détroit (The Straits)
The Walls
Tiger Stadium, 100 Years On
Detroit Freeways
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Pewabic Pottery
"Automobiles were superceding carriages. Many stables were being vacated. Back of a well-known residence in an entirely desirable neighborhood on Alfred Street was an empty barn - just the place to start a small Pottery. I walked by it and around it before I had the courage to ring the bell of the Alanson Fox residence, and was ushered into the famous library where I found Mr. Fox."
--Mary Chase Perry, Excerpt from her autobiography-Chapter VII
Stable and backyard behind Ransom Gillis House looking fron John R
(Citation Needed)
Upstairs of stable behind Ransom Gillis House after it was converted to a pottery by Mary Chase. Circa 1904. Formally it was the drivers quarters.
(Courtey of Dr. Thomas W. Brunk)
Mary Chase Perry in her studio in the stable behind the Ransom Gillis Home. 1905
(Detroit News)
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