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Detroit Public Library and the DIA
Woodward Avenue, Detroit
Andrew Jameson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cass Gilbert's marble library faces Paul Cret's museum across Woodward, both built when Detroit had more money per head than anywhere in America. The city put its car fortune into Italian Renaissance stone.
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