. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . hic edifice, with a graceful spire rising to a height of 230feet. Directly opposite is the handsome station occupied bythe Pere Marquette, Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk, andWabash railroads, only a block from the Michigan Lake Shore station is at the foot of Brush Street. Two miles below the Michigan Central station, the FortStreet cars turn down to River Street and run down to FortWayne, a bastion fortification enclosing sixty-five acres, andcommanding the river channel with its heavy guns. It wasbuilt by
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . hic edifice, with a graceful spire rising to a height of 230feet. Directly opposite is the handsome station occupied bythe Pere Marquette, Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk, andWabash railroads, only a block from the Michigan Lake Shore station is at the foot of Brush Street. Two miles below the Michigan Central station, the FortStreet cars turn down to River Street and run down to FortWayne, a bastion fortification enclosing sixty-five acres, andcommanding the river channel with its heavy guns. It wasbuilt by Gen. M. C. Meigs from 1843 to 1851, and has alwaysbeen the largest and most important fortress in the lake region. Going eastward again, we find on Jefferson Avenue, at thecorner of Hastings Street, a large building whose massive andbeautiful architecture strikes the eye at once. Detroit has nafiner edifice, nor one more creditable to its taste and perceptionof the beautiful. This is the Museum of Art, which wasopened in 1S87, and already contains a large and excellent27. Fort Wayne Barracks. exhibit, including the Scripps collection of Old Masters andthe Frederick Stearns collection of Japanese, Chinese, andEast Indian Curios, numbering some fifteen thousand the Museum of Art we pass a long succession ofpalatial private residences with the beautiful and attractive
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