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Detroit’s Brush Park neighborhood was known as Little Paris in its late nineteenth-century heyday, when the streets were lined with elegant Victorian mansions. Following the vicissitudes of the Great Depression and Detroit’s race riots of the 1940s, the neighborhood succumbed to poverty and crime, and many buildings were razed. Those that remained continued to fall into disrepair, and by the 1960s the neighborhood was all but abandoned. This picture was taken in 2013, when only a handful of the mansions were still standing. Since then new developments have started to fill in areas of Brush Park. In the background of the photograph is downtown Detroit, and across the water on the horizon is Windsor, Ontario. Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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Detroit’s Brush Park neighborhood was known as Little Paris in its late nineteenth-century heyday, when the streets were lined with elegant Victorian mansions. Following the vicissitudes of the Great Depression and Detroit’s race riots of the 1940s, the neighborhood succumbed to poverty and crime, and many buildings were razed. Those that remained continued to fall into disrepair, and by the 1960s the neighborhood was all but abandoned. This picture was taken in 2013, when only a handful of the mansions were still standing. Since then new developments have started to fill in areas of Brush Park. In the background of the photograph is downtown Detroit, and across the water on the horizon is Windsor, Ontario. Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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