"This magnificent book . . . ranges from the earliest beginnings in 1700 to the present. Hawkins Ferry, a distinguished first citizen, speaks both as lifelong resident and as architectural historian. The book is a well-written word picture of the city taken house by house and building by building. Much can be learned by both the layman and the historian from its descriptions and analyses."- Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians "The author's real distinction is his imagining . . . the parade of the city's architecture in every era. He knows, as do few other architectural historians, that the art of architecture consists in the response to the ambition of a certain instant."- The New York Times "This large, handsomely produced, beautifully illustrated volume is in certain respects the most satisfying treatise on the architecture of a single American city which has yet been produced. [It is] a work which will be of substantial interest to everyone concerned with American architectural history." - The Art Bulletin
First published in 1968, The Buildings of Detroit: A History by W. Hawkins Ferry is the definitive resource on the architecture of Detroit and its adjacent communities, from pioneering times to the end of the twentieth century. Ferry based his impressive volume on thirteen years of meticulous research, interviews with many prominent architects, and hundreds of photos commissioned specifically for the book. Ferry revised The Buildings of Detroit in 1980, adding the Renaissance Center and other modern works, and this re-released version presents the revised edition adding only a new foreword by John Gallagher. spans from the early 1700s, when the city was a fur-trading post in the wilderness, to its more contemporary position as the capital of the automotive industry and a major industrial city. Along the way, Ferry offers glimpses of the log cabins of early explorers and soldiers, the Victorian mansions of lumber barons, and the Grosse Pointe and Bloomfield Hills residences of motor magnates. He traces the development of new building techniques that gave rise to the American skyscraper and the modern factory. Ferry details all of downtown's landmark buildings, including many that are no longer standing, and visits fascinating neighborhood structures like movie theatres, hotels, shopping centres, and apartment buildings. In each chapter, readers will meet the visionary architects and clients whose foresight and initiative helped shape the fabric of one of America's great cities. The Buildings of Detroit also includes a selected chronology, maps, references, notes, an extensive index, and 475 illustrations. Previously out of print and difficult to find, this re-released classic will be treasured by Detroit history buffs and architectural historians.
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