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Detroit's Belle Isle

Detroit's Belle Isle

Rodriguez, Michael
Featherstone, Thomas
Rodrigues, M.

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral United States History

Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 1531614590
ISBN13: 9781531614591
Publisher: Arcadia Lib Ed
Published: Feb 28 2003
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
One of the most unique urban parks in the world, Belle Isle has long been a source of civic pride in Detroit. In 1879, just as its population, land area, and industry were flourishing, the city of Detroit purchased this 700-acre island for use as a park. Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was soon commissioned to transform the island into an idyllic retreat from the industrial city. This book uses remarkable images drawn from the Walter P. Reuther Library to document Belle Isle's distinctive history. Throughout the city's periods of accomplishment, economic flux, and social turmoil, Belle Isle is revealed as a romantic haven where Detroit's many cultures came together to relax, celebrate, and play.

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