VARIOUS RUINS - PAGE 4
James Scott Mansion. November 2010.
In between excursions into some of Detroit's most well-known, oft-photographed ruins, Randy from DetroitFunk.com showed me some of the city's other ruins and historic sites on my last day in town.
The Scott mansion was built by one of the city's most unpopular millionaires.
Hitsvillle, USA. Office and studio of Motown Records.
We talked a lot about music that day, and music is one of the defining elements of this city. The legacy of the artists who lived and worked in Detroit should be better promoted and capitalized upon. Instead, much of it is neglected, just as is the architectural legacy of Detroit. Motown's office in downtown Detroit was demolished in advance of the Super Bowl being held at Ford Field at few years ago, for fear the abandoned Donovan Building might make the city look bad. It was demolished and boxes and boxes of written records, the history of Motown, went down with the building. Authorities didn't know and didn't care to look or even ask what might be inside. Fortunately, Randy rescued some documents and donated them to the Detroit Public Library - Hackley Collection.
