• Posts Tagged ‘albert kahn’

    The Free Press Building

    by  • April 16, 2010 • History • 2 Comments

    I’m not really the kind of Detroit kid that does a lot of scrambling around in old buildings, for better or worse, and not for lack of trying — it was pretty much my greatest dream (besides greatness itself) when I was seventeen. Since then I’ve done a lot of personal tail-chasing about Detroit’s ruins....

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    Giants

    by  • January 13, 2010 • Culture, History, Meditations • 2 Comments

    This weekend, for the first time since moving back to Farmington, we finally made it to that chapel of childlike astonishment, Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum. My many, many visits to Marvin’s — as an awestruck child, a teenager with nowhere to go on a summer night, an adult with friends in town to impress...

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