The Buildings of Detroit: A History
This magnificent book . . . ranges from the earliest beginnings in 1700 to the present. Hawkins Ferry, a distinguished first citizen, speaks both as lifelong resident and as architectural historian. The book is a well-written word picture of the city taken house by house and building by building. Much can be learned by both the layman and the historian from its descriptions and analyses. --Journal of the Society of Architectural HistoriansThe author s real distinction is his imagining . . . the parade of the city's architecture in every era. He knows, as do few other architectural historians, that the art of architecture consists in the response to the ambition of a certain instant. --The New York TimesThis large, handsomely produced, beautifully illustrated volume is in certain respects the most satisfying treatise on the architecture of a single American city which has yet been produced. [It is] a work which will be of substantial interest to everyone concerned with American architectural history. --The Art Bulletin