Commercial
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
Built between 1921 and 1928, 26 Calvert St. Baltimore, MD was the headquarters of the United State Fidelity and Guaranty Company. The bonding company later went on to build the much larger Transamerica Tower/Legg Mason Building also in Baltimore. The building was renovated in 2015 into an apartment building.
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C.F. Smith
C.F. Smith was a grocery chain in the Detroit area that operated from 1910 into the 1950s. The buildings we explored were clearly a warehouse set up to store items for the chain. As with so many buildings like this, they had clearly seen a number of uses over the years before finally falling in…
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Metropolitan Building
Built in 1924, the Metropolitan was an ornate downtown Detroit office building.
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Eastern Market FIRE – March 2009
One thing about visiting Detroit during my run of going there regularly was that there was usually some type of fire while I was there. The Detroit Fire Department had an absolutely impossible job trying to keep the thousands of abandoned buildings from burning. On Devil’s Night (the night before Halloween) it became a tradition…
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Eastern Market Detroit – October 2008
On my second trip to visit my Detroit friends and explore, the venerable Nailhed brought us to Eastern Market to check out some of the graffiti and abandonments. What I remember most about Eastern Market is that we ate lunch at Amore De Roma before exploring it. On my first Detroit trip I learned that…
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