Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District

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Coordinates: 42°25′11″N 83°6′37″W / 42.41972°N 83.11028°W / 42.41972; -83.11028
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For the city park in Detroit, Michigan, see Palmer Park (Detroit).

Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District
Streetscape at Whitmore and Alwyne
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LocationDetroit, Michigan, U.S.
Coordinates42°25′11″N 83°6′37″W / 42.41972°N 83.11028°W / 42.41972; -83.11028
Built1925
ArchitectMultiple; Arnold & Fuger et al. (boundary increase)
Architectural styleMixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods); International Style, Colonial Revival (boundary increase)
NRHP reference No.83000895, 05000014 (boundary increase)[1]
Added to NRHPMay 21, 1983; February 11, 2005 (boundary increase)

The Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District is a

Woodward Avenue. The district showcases some of the most ornate and most varied examples of apartment building design in Michigan,[2] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 (with a boundary increase in 2005).[1]

History

The land that this historic district sits on, like the adjacent

Walter Briggs.[3] In 1925, Briggs hired Albert Kahn to design an apartment building in the area (this building, at 1001 Covington, was converted to condos in 2005[4]). Forty buildings total were constructed in the district by multiple architects, including Weidmaier and Gay, Robert West, and William Kapp.[5] Most of the buildings were constructed in the 1920s and 1930s, but development continued until 1965.[3]

At one time Palmer Park had a large LGBT community and had numbers of bars, bookstores, and restaurants owned by gay people. At that time, the only way one could acquire an apartment in the area is if one already knew another resident in the complex. Crime and police harassment increased in the 1980s, and gay people began leaving. Wendy Case of

Hotter Than July!" annual LGBT festival is held in Palmer Park; the festival states that it caters to the "black same-gender-loving".[6]

Description

The buildings within the district were designed primarily for middle- and upper-middle-class residents.

International Style buildings.[7]

Notable buildings in the district

  • Temple Israel
    , 1950s building, now used as a church
  • Palmer Park Chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, originally built for a Greek Orthodox Church.

Education

Palmer Park is within the

Detroit Public Schools district. Residents are zoned to Palmer Park Preparatory Academy, formerly the Barbara Jordan School,[8] for elementary and middle school.[9][10] All residents are zoned to Mumford High School.[11] Palmer Park is operated by teachers and not by a principal administrator.[12]

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  • Apartment Building at Whitmore and Manderson
    Apartment Building at Whitmore and Manderson
  • Alwyne Lane Apartments
    Alwyne Lane Apartments
  • Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District
    Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District
  • Boyce Apartments
    Boyce Apartments

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ Palmer Park Apartment Buildings Historic District Archived 2012-02-13 at the Wayback Machine (Archive) from the city of Detroit
  3. ^ a b c d e Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District from the city of Detroit
  4. ^ Detroit Development News, Nov 15, 2005, ModelD
  5. ^ Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District from Detroit1701.org
  6. ^ a b c Case, Wendy. "Affirming Ferndale." (Archive) Metro Times. May 30, 2007. Retrieved on January 24, 2013.
  7. ^ Detroit Historic Districts Archived 2012-06-15 at the Wayback Machine from CityScape Detroit
  8. Detroit Public Schools
    . August 13, 2010. Retrieved on November 1, 2012.
  9. Detroit Public Schools
    . Retrieved on November 1, 2012.
  10. Detroit Public Schools
    . Retrieved on November 1, 2012.
  11. Detroit Public Schools
    . Retrieved on November 1, 2012.
  12. ^ Winerip, Michael. "For Detroit Schools, Mixed Picture on Reforms." The New York Times. March 13, 2011. Retrieved on November 9, 2012.

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