Cars parked in vacant lot at corner of Larned and Orleans. Brick commercial buildings along both streets, parcel 33, in the area bounded by Hastings/Dequindre/Larned/Congress, site 3-S-1. Sign on two-story brick building on Orleans reads "Willis-Graul fire service & construction co. Remodeling, alterations, fire repairs. Free estimates WO2-9197.". Sign on corner reads "Fast auto wash, open daily and Sundays." Sign on one-story brick building on Larned reads "1827, Edgewood Tool & [Mfg. Co.], dies, [stampings]." Viewed at an angle across intersection over hood of car. Cars parked in lot and on street; boy on sidewalk. Handwritten on front: "Par. 33, vac. lot N.E. cor. Larned & Orleans, 9-27-51."
MS/Detroit. Corporation Counsel. Real Estate Div., Box 21
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Part of a collection that contains condemnation files, photographs, blueprints and descriptions of slum clearance housing parcels for the City of Detroit. Of particular note are areas which included the neighborhoods known as Paradise Valley, Black Bottom, Corktown and the Jeffries Housing Project.
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