One of the courtrooms from the1890 Post Office, US Customs House and Court House still exists. It was disassembled and later installed on the seventh floor of the new building and today is used by the chief judge. The Pontchartrain Hotel (Pontch) was demolished primarily because it was from the era where hotel rooms didn't have en suite bathrooms. It became more difficult to rent rooms to people who had to trek down the hall for those facilities.
I AM FROM THE FAR NORTH SUBURBS OF DETROIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BORN IN 1962 IN PONTIAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SEEM TO RECALL QUITE PROBABLY BEING IN THAT RAILROAD STATION AROUND THE TIME I WAS IN KINDERGARTEN AND POSSIBLY WITHIN A FEW YEARS AFTER THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE TIMELINE OF IT'S DEMOLITION IN 1974 WOULD MESH WITH THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SEEM TO RECALL THAT IT MAY HAVE BEEN DEMOLISHED WITH EXPLOSIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I THINK IT MAY HAVE BEEN ON THE SITE OF WHAT IS NOW THE RENAISSANCE CENTER COMPLEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FROM EVERYTHING I KNOW, DETROIT WAS ONCE AN ABSOLUTE CROWN JEWEL OF THE MIDWEST, AND THE HORRIBLE WASTELAND THAT DEMOLITION CREWS HAVE HELPED TURN IT INTO WAS NOT EVEN A DREAM IN ANYONE'S MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Either this narration is A.I. or the narrator didn’t do any research and doesn’t know how to pronounce a handful of names. I grew up in Michigan and instantly chuckled at them.
We used to build palaces in the U.S. and everyone was about on the streets all classy looking. Now we build budget-ugly concrete squares and the public all looking skanky and broke. What happened and where did all the money go?
Was Detroit bankrupt in 1974? Or 1961? Or 1931? Buildings can be repurposed or added to. El Paso, Texas did a great job of adding to its main library and still retaining much of its original structure and appearance.
This goes to show you that NOBODY in Detroit government cares about Detroit history or historical buildings like Bostin and other cultural minded cities. Especially the type of people in Detroit City Council. If the buildings were built by white people, like Italians, Polish, German, Hungarian, or Mexican, tear it down. Make new Detroit architecture to greatly reflect the current Detroit population of today. The Detroit city council has a saying like OJ's lawyer, Johnny Cochran. " If it ain't black, take it back." "If it don't fit, tear it down brick by brick"😮
@idontwantahandle The past and current members of Detroit city council ain't Mexican but are still deeply tanned. In many cases, about tearing down historical buildings in Detroit, it was the black majority Detroit City Council members that pulled the trigger on building demolition. And it was the black population that started the destruction of Detroit during the summer of 1967. Instead of taking their anger against the racist white cops 👮♂️, the people on 12th and Clairemont recided to punish the Detroit police force by burning and looting their own neighborhood to the ground and their STUPIDITY spread out beyond 12th and Clairemont to what Detroit looks like today. Real smart urban street cockroaches. The racist white cop's won, but the city of Detroit LOST and NEVER recovered. And I'm no racist. The Detroit police officers were. As a white citizen of Detroit, I voted for Colman Young so he could get rid of the thug cop's, especially The Big 4. I got thumped by the white criminal Big 4 cop's too. They and the rest of the Detroit cop's did not just discriminate against black people.
Always breaks my heart to see great buildings erased...
One of the courtrooms from the1890 Post Office, US Customs House and Court House still exists. It was disassembled and later installed on the seventh floor of the new building and today is used by the chief judge.
The Pontchartrain Hotel (Pontch) was demolished primarily because it was from the era where hotel rooms didn't have en suite bathrooms. It became more difficult to rent rooms to people who had to trek down the hall for those facilities.
Beautiful old buildings, the new architect of today doesn't stand a candle to these buildings.
Just wow!! That library was magnificent!! Who in their right mind would deem it "old fashioned" and disposable??! Sounds like a money thing!!
I AM FROM THE FAR NORTH SUBURBS OF DETROIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BORN IN 1962 IN PONTIAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SEEM TO RECALL QUITE PROBABLY BEING IN THAT RAILROAD STATION AROUND THE TIME I WAS IN KINDERGARTEN AND POSSIBLY WITHIN A FEW YEARS AFTER THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE TIMELINE OF IT'S DEMOLITION IN 1974 WOULD MESH WITH THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SEEM TO RECALL THAT IT MAY HAVE BEEN DEMOLISHED WITH EXPLOSIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I THINK IT MAY HAVE BEEN ON THE SITE OF WHAT IS NOW THE RENAISSANCE CENTER COMPLEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FROM EVERYTHING I KNOW, DETROIT WAS ONCE AN ABSOLUTE CROWN JEWEL OF THE MIDWEST, AND THE HORRIBLE WASTELAND THAT DEMOLITION CREWS HAVE HELPED TURN IT INTO WAS NOT EVEN A DREAM IN ANYONE'S MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great video! 😊
Great info.
It broke my heart! But, lot of beautiful places in Scranton, Pennsylvania is still standing.
So many more historical buildings were lost in the theater district. So very, very sad.
what about the hudson's building
Great video. Subscribed.
My favorite of this selection is of course the Art museum 2nd would be the library the others I could take or leave
Surly wish the art museum would have been saved .
Che peccato perdere delle architetture così belle , penso si dovrebbero ricostruire
The cost would astronomical!😮
Either this narration is A.I. or the narrator didn’t do any research and doesn’t know how to pronounce a handful of names. I grew up in Michigan and instantly chuckled at them.
I laughed at your soul patch when I saw it.
My guess is A.I. A.I. sucks
Definitely AI. Nobody would pronounce 'Co.' as spelt 👎
Probably a simple text to speech program not AI
@@dougleclaire9424It’s ruining everything! 🤬
4th Street Union Depot: How can people say that it was made of a "plastic" composition when plastic wasn't even invented until 1907?
So sad.
Burned alot of buildings during devils nights through the 70s and 80s
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We used to build palaces in the U.S. and everyone was about on the streets all classy looking. Now we build budget-ugly concrete squares and the public all looking skanky and broke. What happened and where did all the money go?
Was Detroit bankrupt in 1974? Or 1961? Or 1931? Buildings can be repurposed or added to. El Paso, Texas did a great job of adding to its main library and still retaining much of its original structure and appearance.
oof..!
WAAABash?? Isn't it pronounced WAWBASH?? Is this another A.I. narrator???
Not AI. I've heard both ways
@@HighAmericana Use "WAWBASH"
@@HighAmericanaThere is only one way!
This goes to show you that NOBODY in Detroit government cares about Detroit history or historical buildings like Bostin and other cultural minded cities. Especially the type of people in Detroit City Council. If the buildings were built by white people, like Italians, Polish, German, Hungarian, or Mexican, tear it down. Make new Detroit architecture to greatly reflect the current Detroit population of today. The Detroit city council has a saying like OJ's lawyer, Johnny Cochran. " If it ain't black, take it back." "If it don't fit, tear it down brick by brick"😮
Except Black people had nothing to do with tearing down any of these buildings racist.
@idontwantahandle The past and current members of Detroit city council ain't Mexican but are still deeply tanned. In many cases, about tearing down historical buildings in Detroit, it was the black majority Detroit City Council members that pulled the trigger on building demolition. And it was the black population that started the destruction of Detroit during the summer of 1967. Instead of taking their anger against the racist white cops 👮♂️, the people on 12th and Clairemont recided to punish the Detroit police force by burning and looting their own neighborhood to the ground and their STUPIDITY spread out beyond 12th and Clairemont to what Detroit looks like today. Real smart urban street cockroaches. The racist white cop's won, but the city of Detroit LOST and NEVER recovered. And I'm no racist. The Detroit police officers were. As a white citizen of Detroit, I voted for Colman Young so he could get rid of the thug cop's, especially The Big 4. I got thumped by the white criminal Big 4 cop's too. They and the rest of the Detroit cop's did not just discriminate against black people.
You're 100% correct you nailed it
The MAJORITY of not ALL were demolished before the population shift Sir .
Folks if a city is bankrupt. these old nice buildings are gonna go away sad reality. Move on?
I bet they are now all Mike Ilitch parking lots now. Pizza pizza. Sucks