Buildings at Griswold and Clifford
Wedge-shaped brick building at Griswold & Clifford. Signs include: Federal Bond & Mortgage Co.; Lunch; Van Vliet, optician; Billy I. Levinson Co., tailors; Downtown Tailor & Cleaners; Walker's Lunch. "Ghosts" blurred crossing street; other people visible on sidewalk. Typed on label on photograph back: "Griswold Street from Clifford St. engine house. The Jones Building and below it at Grand River corner the Bowles building, formerly the Y.M.C.A. building, built in 1875. We have another large photo showing the same section of the street as it was in the 1870s when Peocock's woodyard was occupying the space now covered by the Jones Building. The owner of the building is Henry L. Jones, grandson of De Garmo Jones, once owner of the Jones Farm and a prominent business man of Detroit after 1812."
- Resource ID:
- DPA4281
- Subject:
- Streets--Michigan--Detroit
- Commercial buildings--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 10.25 x 8 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- D/Streets-Griswold & Clifford
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.