Stroh's is spoken here: The rise and fall of a Detroit icon
Here's how the Detroit brewery went from being a legendary success to a legendary catastrophe
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July 2026 HistoricDetroit.org site update
We added 13 buildings to our offerings, as well as 658 photos from around the Motor City
When love turns to hate: Riot at the Belle Isle love-in
In 1967, hippies took over Detroit's island park - and then the biker gang showed up
How a Detroit hero fought poverty, gangs and a burned-out school to save her neighborhood
Miss Pee Wee turns 98 next week. Here the story of this tireless champion of Chadsey-Condon.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda: The failed opportunity to save Cooley High School
Detroit's most beautiful surviving high school is falling to the wrecking ball. Here's a look at the latest inevitable, avoidable loss of our city's history.
Hazen S. Pingree: Not just Detroit's best mayor, but one of the greatest in American history
It was 122 years ago today that Detroiters unveiled a monument to him - here's why
Exploding bananas, ugly fish, an arsonist's match and preserving Eastern Market
The story of Frontera & Son and how it helped save a beloved Detroit institution, even though it wouldn't be saved itself.
108 years ago today, Michigan banned booze - and created one of America's deadliest crime families
The state went dry two years before the rest of the nation, but its location across the river from Canada turned Detroit into a hotbed for rum-running and the bloodshed that comes with it
Detroit's 'other' train station: The Union Depot
It was 55 years ago today that the venerable downtown landmark was shuttered. It fell to the wrecking ball 3 years later
Remembering Detroit's Tiger Stadium on its 114th birthday
The Corner was a Queen of Diamonds. The history and memories there stretch generations back and all the way to the halls of Cooperstown