Hunter House is located in the Woodbridge neighborhood of Detroit. The house is also known as the William Northwood House or the Northwood-Hunter House.

The house currently operates as a bed and breakfast.

The house cost $13,500 to completed and was finished in 1891 by architect George F. Depew. The house was built for William Northwood, co-founder of Howard-Northwood Malt Manufacturing but was purchased by James Sullivan, founder of Sullivan Beef, in 1903. The Sullivan's lived there until 1957. 

In the 1960s, the house was converted into a church, and in '66 a side porch and conservatory were demolished. In the early 1970s the home became a private residence again when the Hunter family bought it.

The home is a French Renaissance Chateauesque style with red brick and a rusticated stone exterior. Round and square towers project from the main section of house, each with their own roof. 

The Alhambra Flats were built in 1895. It is a six-story, twenty-four unit Romanesque Revival building meant for upper-middle class residence of the time. 

The building is located in an area known informally as Cass Corridor. Today it stands in semi-ruin. 

The John N. Bagley House was completed in 1889, styled in the French Renaissance Revival. The house in two and one-half stories tall with a sharply pointed three-story conical tower. 

The house is one of the finest of Detroit's Richardson Romanesque Revival architecture. The house also features sculptures made by famed sculptor Julius Melchers. 

The Castle stands tall and imposing built in the medieval castle style that is it's claim to fame. Completed in 1898, Marvin Stanton wanted a more unique looking castle-design for his home.

The style of building is considered eclectic, with suggestions of late medieval castle. It is clear to see it was inspired by castles, though, with it's tall peaks and slender tower. The red brick and cream stone lentils are very pleasing to the eye. 

The Castle is 13,500 sq. ft. and is built on a canal, known as the Stanton Canal. In 1911, Stanton's heirs constructed a large add-on, resembling a carriage house 

The house was vacant in the latter part of the 20th century, and has served as a bed and breakfast, as well as a restaurant. The house is for sale. 

The Palms Apartments were built between 1901 and 1903. Standing six-stories high, the building was one of the first buildings constructed with reinforced concrete. The cost of construction was around $80,000. The building was designed by Albert Kahn and George Mason. 

The building was meant for high-class residence. The building was faced in limestone, and was constructed in a "U" shape. The facade is symmetrical with octagonal towers. 

The original floor plans of The Palms consisted of a double parlor in the front and a dining room with a fireplace in the back, separated by bedrooms, libraries, baths and more.

The large apartments were divided into smaller apartments in the 1930s. Many of the original details still exist on the interior and exterior today. 

The Palms had a six-story spiral staircase that wrapped around the elevator. 

The apartments can still be rented today.

The Charles Trowbridge House is the oldest building in Detroit. It is a two-story, five-bay brick home. 

Charles Christopher Trowbridge was a 19th century Detroiter. He made a living as a businessman and politician, who enjoyed exploring. He was also an enthnographer of Native American cultures. Trowbridge served as Mayor of Detroit in 1834.

Trwobridge built this building, which he used as a home in 1826 for $2500. He lived in the house, for 56 years, until his death. Though the house was originally built in Greek Revival style, it was updated with Victorian bay and windows.

The house remained in the Trowbridge family until 1942. It had been being used as a rooming house before being sold.

Today the house is privately owned and a houses several businesses, mostly using Trowbridge as a namesake.

The Trowbridge house was considered to be the finest frame house in the territory when it was completed. 

Built in 1913, Michigan Central Station is one of Detroit's hallmarks. Rarely is there a collage of photos representing the city without the "train station" among them.

Most Detroiters love the train station. It is a large, majestic and shostly building that tells the story of another time. It is, in a way, the perfect symbol of Detroit, something once so beautiful that is now a shell of it's former glory. 

Detroit is on the uprise though, the downtown area anyway, while the MCS is left to rot.

Michigan Central Station
in December 1913, prior to opening
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The station began being used December 26th, 1913 after the prior Michigan Central Station burned down. It was planned to be part of a larger project that included freight and passengers using the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel and the Detroit River.

The station was built on a main line, with was more convenient than the spur line that the previous station was built on. 

The station was located away from downtown, though not too far, in an effort for it to be an anchor for more development.

In it's first few years, the station was booming in the peak of railway travel with more than two hundred trains leaving daily. In the 1940s, the station employed more than 3,000 people. It was used by actor Charlie Chaplin, inventor Thomas Edison, and President FDR and Harry S. Truman. 

The plans of development were close to being realized when Henry Ford bought land near the MCS, but the Great Depression hit and construction was halted.

Interurban transportation began to die out in the '30s and the station suffered a blow as it had no large parking facility for automobiles. This was the beginning tug of the unravelling of the station's strings.

World War II gave the station more hope, as it was used heavily by the military. Unfortunately, the passenger rate was on a decline as the war concluded. Owners attempted to sell the station in 1956, for $5 million, one-third less than it's building cost. The building was placed on the selling block again in 1963, but both times persuaded no buyers. 

 In 1967, maintenance costs began to get too high. The restaurant, arcade shops, and main entrance were closed, along with much of the main waiting room This left only two ticket windows open. 

Amtrak's monopoly of all passenger rail service, in 1971, brought a new dawn to the station, and a $12.5 million renovation began in 1978. Six years later, the building was sold for a transportation center project the never got on it's feet. On January 6, 1988, the last Amtrak train pulled out of the station's gates and the facility closed.

Controlled Terminals, Inc. purchased the station in 1996. The building has been in a state of limbo since then. In 2009, there were plans to demolish it, but they were prevented. The future of the building remains unknown.