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In 1917, a group of investors sought to build an affordable hotel near Fort Street Union Depot. They hired Schmidt, Garden & Martin of Chicago to design the 10-story, 450-room hotel which opened that year as the Fort Shelby Hotel. The hotel was so successful that in 1926 they broke ground for the first of two planned 450-room expansions, the 27 ...
Richard B. Lernoult, Jean François Hamtramck, William Hull. Fort Shelby was a military fort in Detroit, Michigan that played a significant role in the War of 1812. It was built by the British in 1779 as Fort Lernoult, and was ceded to the United States by the Jay Treaty in 1796. It was renamed Fort Detroit by Secretary of War Henry Dearborn in ...
Detroit, Michigan. Country. United States. Attendance. 371. The 17th World Science Fiction Convention ( Worldcon ), also known as Detention, was held on 4–7 September 1959 at the Pick Fort Shelby Hotel in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The chairmen were Roger Sims and Fred Prophet. [1]
Accordingly, in August 1972 they organized the Detroit Tri-Con, held August 3–6 at the Pick-Fort Shelby Hotel. Official guests were Gray Morrow , Lin Carter , and Fan Guest of Honor Rick Yager ; other guests included Edmond Hamilton , Leigh Brackett , Al Williamson , Russ Myers , John Jakes , T. Casey Brennan , and Robert Taylor ; the program ...
1701–1796. Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit or Fort Detroit (1701–1796) was a French and later British fortification established in 1701 on the north side of the Detroit River by Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac. A settlement based on the fur trade, farming and missionary work slowly developed in the area.
Shelby is on Shelby Street in downtown Detroit’s financial district. Like an old-time speakeasy, it's in a hidden space. Top 10 Takeover dining series: Tickets for Shelby, a Detroit speakeasy ...
Here's what happened when the Detroit Tigers' first-round pick faced their second-rounder. Gannett. Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press. July 16, 2024 at 6:09 AM. About a week ago, there was a ...
Fort Lernoult, turned over to the Americans in 1796, renamed Fort Detroit, in British hands again during part of 1812–1813, renamed Fort Shelby, abandoned 1826; Fort Mackinac, built in 1781, turned over to the Americans in 1796, captured in the War of 1812, it was again under British control from 1812 to 1815, closed 1895