The long history of lafayette park includes the slum clearing urban renewal of postwar urban centers, the rise of modernist housing blocks in the u. Lafayette park, also known as presidents park or lafayette square, is a sevenacre public park located across from the white house in washington, d. Lafayette park, detroit wikimili, the free encyclopedia. The green space provides an arena for public protests, ranger programs, and special events. Lafayette park princeton, indiana playground, picnic. Lafayette park place apartments is situated in the historic urban renewal district of lafayette park.
The lafayette park historic district is located in central albany, new york, united states. Lafayette park an example in collaborative design lafayette towers kompot photo lafayette park is regarded as one of the most successful urban renewal projects, not just in the city of detroit where it is situated but throughout the united states. Detroits lafayette park to get five new developments. The most significant impact to the integrity of lafayette park was the loss of a twostory. Links mies detroit lafayette park, detroit, michigan. This selfguided walking tour of lafayette park may also be downloaded as a printerfriendly pdf 1 the park house, built in 1867 for use as a police station, now serves as an office for the lafayette square restoration committee and as a st. Lafayette towers, lafayette park, detroit, michigan. Mies i am ecstatic that a new book, thanks for the view, mr. Built between 1958 and 1962, the buildings use aluminium and tinted glass and have simple, clean proportions. In 2015 it was designated a national historic landmark district. Limit 10 per meeting due to social distancing regulations.
Louis common in 1836 and dedicated in 1851 as one of the first public parks, and by far the largest of its era, in the city of st. National historic landmark mies detroit lafayette park, detroit. The first large building to go up in lafayette park was the pavilion apartments, completed in 1959 and featuring mies trademark. Zillow has 26 homes for sale in lafayette park detroit matching. Princeton lafayette park lodge 5pm, 6pm, 7pm tonight. The variety of environments created by each particular species in their words, actions and images is. Lafayette park residential development scales back due to construction costs.
Lafayette park continues to be the subject of a number of articles looking at the design legacy of. Design mies detroit lafayette park, detroit, michigan. Lafayette park place apartments in detroit, mi home. The landscape mies detroit lafayette park, detroit. The home, designed and built between 1945 and 1951. Handmedown furniture, friends art, shelves stuffed with books, assorted ephemera, and lots and lots of. The acre, cityowned park is surrounded by eight separate housing components, a school and a shopping center. The location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association all remain. Its combination of alfred caldwells landscape design and ludwig hilberseimers planning make it a rare and progressive example of total community planning.
The parks name was changed to lafayette park in 1854, although the surrounding neighborhood continued to be known as lafayette square. Detroits lafayette park is national historic landmark. Lafayette west will now cost around the same amount to build, but have 48 fewer units. Herb greenwald, the developer, worked with mies previously on. Lafayette park detroit, edited by danielle aubert, lana cavar, and natasha chandani. Lafayette park, an affordable middleclass residential area in downtown detroit, is home to the largest collection of buildings designed by ludwig mies van. The northern section planned and partially built by mies is listed in the national register of historic places.
It is not immediately obvious that archigrams architectural legacy, which is in some ways slight, deserves to be documented in a book. Lafayette park is located immediately adjacent to the. In documenting everyday life at lafayette park, the photographers and editors lend new purpose and meaning to mies architecture. The northern section planned and partially built by mies is listed in the. Lafayette park was built on land that was once a densely populated working. Louis police substation 2 this circular horse watering trough had been converted to a planter by the end of the 1800s. Lafayette park in detroit granted landmark status architectural. In 1978 it was recognized as a historic district and listed on the national register of historic places nrhp. The 1851 ordinance provided for a board of improvement that was charged with managing and improving the park, and with raising funds to do so. There is not a ton of readilyavailable information regarding lafayette park, in detroit. United states department of the interior, national park. Barbershops, birdwatching, and community newsletters.
On august 4, 2015 lafayette park was designated a national historic landmark by the united. Boasting exquisite views of the detroit skyline and located only half a mile from greektown and the riverwalk and directly across the street from the muchanticipated meijer grocery store, our community is possibly one of the bestlocated apartments in detroit, mi. It includes the park and the combination of large government buildings and small rowhouses on the neighboring streets. Photo by corine vermeulen in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a major urban redevelopment project on detroits east side created lafayette park, a planned community that is today one of the citys most racially integrated and economically stable neighborhoods. They are classic examples of the international style. With so little information out there, this book is a musthave. Mies lafayette park, detroit, has been published by metropolis books and released in october 2012. Danni josephine neal is with ashley nicole doan and aaron nicklaus neal at. By the early 1960s many elements of this plan had been completed, notes the introduction to the recently released metropolis book, thanks for the view, mr. An unlikely success story for modern architecture, mies. Miess lafayette park gets first new project in 40 years.
It is considered by many historians to be the oldest urban park west of the mississippi. Lafayette park page 1 united states department of the interior, national park service national register of historic places registration form. Mies is a superb field guide to the diverse crosssection of inhabitants, the variety of habitats they have constructed within their brilliant biome, the lush and abundant flora and the ground fauna of lafayette park. Download pdf thanks for the view mr mies lafayette park detroit.
Lafayette park retains a high degree of integrity in its form, materials, and aesthetic presentation. Elsewhere, the architect reaffirmed the principles of the modernist movement in new contexts, like in detroits lafayette park, which sees a collection of residential buildings encompassed in a natural landscape last but not least is the always iconic farnsworth house pictured above. I was honored to have been asked by the editors to write an extended essay about the history of lafayette park in relationship to the rest of detroit. Many of its contributing properties are themselves listed on the national. Lafayette park progetto tecologia ambiente seminario losasso. Questions about coop living and lafayette park can be answered at mies detroit.