Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor City's Majestic Ruins

Lost Detroit tells the stories behind 12 of the city's most beautiful all-but-forgotten landmarks and of the people behind them from the day they opened to the day they closed. While these buildings might stand as ghosts of the past today their stories live on within these pages. The team behind BuildingsofDetroit.com brings you the memories of those who caught trains out of the majestic Michigan Central Station necked with girlfriends in the balcony of the palatial Michigan Theatre danced the night away at the Vanity Ballroom and kicked out the jams at the Grande Ballroom. As Detroit Free Press Architecture Critic John Gallagher said the buildings in these pages held a central place in the story of Detroit's Auto Century. It was America's story too. Detroiters lived loved toiled played celebrated and dreamed great dreams in these buildings and thereby helped shape a nation.

Paperback: 176 pages

Publisher: The History Press (August 16 2010)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1596299401

ISBN-13: 978-1596299405

Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 0.3 x 8.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds