Horticultural Building And Aquarium, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.

Horticultural Building And Aquarium, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.
Year: 
1932
Publisher: 
United News Co.
Type(s): 
Postcard
Language: 
English
Source: 
Mike Skreptak Collection; Dexter Box
Notes: 
c. 1932; the Horticultural Building and Aquarium on Belle Isle, Michigan were designed by Albert Kahn, built 1902-1904 and opened August 18, 1904; the basement of the Aquarium functioned as a speakeasy during Prohibition; now called the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory or the Belle Isle Conservatory, the Horticultural Building still stands; the Aquarium closed in 2005 but reopened in 2012.
Subject(s): 
Belle Isle Park (Michigan). Horticultural Building
Belle Isle Park (Michigan). Conservatory
Belle Isle Park (Michigan). Aquarium
Parks
Belle Isle Park (Michigan)
Greenhouses
Kahn, Albert, Architect
Prohibition
Place(s): 
Belle Isle (Michigan)
Detroit (Michigan)
Rights: 
Public Domain
Repository: 
University of Windsor. Leddy Library
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