The Michigan Theatre
Built in 1926, this glorious building functioned as a performance space until 1976, when it was converted into a parking garage.
Rebecca Solnit, one my favorite writers lately, wrote a beautiful piece for Harper’s last year about Detroit’s collapse-cum-transformation from an urban area into…something else. It’s availalbe in PDF format here from the Boggs Center.
The Michigan Theater image from Time, via Joanne McNeill and the Tomorrow Museum’s Tumblr annex.
