Hour Blog TWIW - Mariners' Church, 1955

1955 Seventy years ago, Detroit demonstrated that achieving both urban renewal and historic preservation was possible. To make way for a new civic center development while the since-demolished Ford Auditorium (left) was being constructed, over a four-month period, the 6 million-ton Mariners' Church (center) was moved 800 feet eastward on a complex arrangement of steel [...]The post TWIW - Mariners' Church, 1955 appeared first on Hour Detroit Magazine.