Preservation Wayne’s Walking Tour season will begin on May 2, with
tours happening each Saturday and Tuesday through Sept. 20. "(The
tours) give people the touch and feel and taste of the city that I
think people really respond to," says Preservation Wayne’s executive
director Francis Grunow. "When you put a layer of history and
interpretation with what people are seeing, they look with brand new
eyes at what the city was, is, and can be.”
Tours of Downtown, Eastern Market, Midtown, and the Cultural Center
begin each Saturday at 10 a.m. An Auto Heritage tour is given two
Saturdays a month; it begins at the Model T Automotive Heritage
Complex, or T-Plex, on Piquette Street. Tuesday tours are
downtown-centric and focus on things like restaurants and bars,
skyscrapers, architects Louis Kamper and Albert Kahn, or sculptures,
fountains and public art.
Two one-off tours include a spotlight of Ferry Avenue held in
conjunction with the Festival of the Arts on June 10 and 11 and the
Theatre District on Aug. 12.
Saturday morning tours begin at 10 a.m. and Tuesday evening tours begin at 5:30.
Click here or call (313) 577-3559 for more details.
Source: Francis Grunow, Preservation Wayne
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