Detroit Photography, 2921 E Jefferson Avenue Suite 101, Detroit, MI (2026)

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06/02/2026

Yesterday's sunset in Midtown, Detroit was beautiful.

Yesterday’s sunset in Midtown, Detroit was beautiful. These four buildings sit within a few blocks of each other. Diego Rivera lived in one of them.

The Maccabees Building (Albert Kahn, 1927) had a radio antenna that broadcast the Lone Ranger to America in the 1930s. WXYZ ran the show out of those studios.

The Detroit Public Library (Cass Gilbert, 1921) sits across Woodward from the DIA. Its facade is white Vermont marble.

The Park Shelton opened in 1926 as the Wardell-Sheraton Hotel. Diego Rivera lived there for a year while he painted the Detroit Industry murals at the DIA. Frida Kahlo was with him.

The Scarab Club (1928) is the oldest art club in Detroit, founded in 1907. Rivera, Norman Rockwell, and almost every major American artist who passed through Detroit signed the wooden beams of its second-floor lounge.

05/28/2026

Did you know this was once the gate to “Detroit’s Disneyland?”

Today the Hurlbut Memorial Gate on East Jefferson Avenue is inaccessible behind an iron fence. But it was once the gate to Waterworks Park, one of Detroit’s most beautiful public spaces.

The park was 110 acres of gardens and greenhouses, with an observation tower overlooking the river and a canal that ran straight in from the Detroit River so visitors could arrive by canoe. One visitor remembered it as “Detroit’s Disneyland.”

Chauncey Hurlbut was a Detroit grocer who became president of the city’s Board of Water Commissioners. He left his fortune in his will to make the park beautiful. The gate was built in 1894 and features carvings by the Austrian-born sculptor Joachim Jungwirth, who also made the facade of the Belle Isle Aquarium.

The park permanently closed in the early 1970s. Lightning destroyed the stone eagle on the roof in August 2019, but it was recarved in 2023 from the same Indiana quarry that supplied Michigan Central Station.

Maybe someday Waterworks Park will open again.

05/20/2026

A series of portraits of real estate professional Mary McGaughy

05/19/2026

Did you know one of the last major du Pont estates is finally becoming public?

This is Granogue, on a hilltop overlooking the Brandywine River, just outside Wilmington, Delaware. The du Pont family lived there for a century until Irénée Jr. died in 2023 at age 103.

Every other du Pont mansion in the Brandywine Valley has been a museum for decades. Granogue held out the longest. Longwood Gardens just bought the property and plans to open it to the public in the coming years.

The Brandywine Valley has been home to four generations of American painters. Howard Pyle established the Brandywine River School here in the 1890s. His student N.C. Wyeth settled in Chadds Ford and painted the Brandywine landscapes. N.C.’s son Andrew Wyeth painted there too, and Andrew’s son Jamie Wyeth still does.

05/14/2026

The setup vs. the shot: window edition.

One of our favorite features of our historic Detroit studio is the massive bay windows that look out onto Jefferson Ave.

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05/10/2026

What does $800,000 get you in Detroit?

The largest house in the city, located in the Palmer Woods neighborhood: 35,000 square feet, 12 bedrooms, and 14 bathrooms.

The Bishop Gallagher house sold for $800,000 in January 2026, after listing for over $9 million.

But the house has a dark backstory. It was gifted to Michael James Gallagher, the Bishop of Detroit by the Fisher Brothers, owners of the Fisher Body corporation.

Gallagher was notorious for appointing, and staunchly defending, Father Charles Coughlin, America’s most notorious anti-s*mite. “I made no mistake and have never doubted my judgment in putting him before the microphone,” Gallagher said. Coughlin openly defended the f*scist governments of Germany and Italy.

From AIA Detroit, by Eric J. Hill and John Gallagher:

BISHOP GALLAGHER HOUSE
1880 Wellesley Dr.
Maginnis and Walsh, 1925

“Ecclesiastical power may have its earthly symbols. This Tudor Revival mansion was built in 1924-1925 for Bishop Michael J. Gallagher at a time when European immigration was swelling the number and influence of Detroit’s Roman Catholics. Look closely at the medallions, crests, and shields on the exterior and you’ll see angels, papal insignia, and other religious inspirations. The interior was among Detroit’s most regal, with marble fireplaces, intricate carvings, Pewabic tile inlays, and extensive oak paneling. In 1989, in a more secular world, the arch diocese sold the house after first taking out all religious objects, including an altar and stations of the cross. Former Detroit Pistons star John Salley then owned the house for a time.”

We took these photos yesterday as part of our project to photograph every historic building in Detroit.

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