

The abandoned Michigan Central Train station, as seen from Roosevelt Park. Tags: Michigan Central Station View |
The MCS as it currently stands As you can see apart from the broken windows the architecture is almost entirely intact Even its ornaments still remain A video showing the inside of the station from 1987 less than a year before it closed Tags: Michigan Central Station View |
The introduction to Detroit s Michigan Central Station says the Michigan Central Station was designed by Warren Wetmore and Reed Stem the firms who were the architects of New York s Tags: Michigan Central Station View |
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Michigan Central Station (also known as Michigan Central Depot or MCS), built in 1913 for the Michigan Central Railroad, was Detroit, Michigans (Michigan) passenger rail depot from its opening in 1913 after the previous Michigan Central Station burned, until the cessation of Amtrak service on January 6, 1988. At the time of its construction, it was the tallest rail station in the world.
The building, located in the Corktown (Corktown, Detroit) district of Detroit near the recently demolished Tiger Stadium (Tiger Stadium (Detroit)) and the Ambassador Bridge about convert2mikm southwest of downtown Detroit, still stands today, though it remains unoccupied. It is located behind Roosevelt Park, and the Roosevelt Warehouse is situated next to it. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Restoration projects and plans have gone as far as the negotiation process, but none has come to fruition. Restoration of Michigan Central Station is seen as an important project for the economic development of the City of Detroit.
Detroit City Council voted on April 7, 2009 to demolish the building, passing a resolution that calls for expedited demolition. Detroit resident Stanley Christmas subsequently sued the city to stop the demolition effort, citing the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
Birth Location: 2405 West Vernor Street,Detroit, Michigan
Lat Degrees: 42
Lat Minutes: 19
Lat Seconds: 43.69
Lat Direction: N
Long Degrees: 83
Long Minutes: 4
Long Seconds: 39.83
Long Direction: W
Locmapin: Michigan
Area: convert500000sqftm2abbr=on
Architect: Reed and Stem,,Warren and Wetmore
Architecture: Beaux-Arts (Beaux-Arts architecture)
Built: 1913
Added: April 16, 1975
Refnum: 75000969