Credits

This Discover our Shared Heritage Travel Detroit, MI website is produced by the National Park Service’s Cultural Resources Office of Interpretation and Education.

Much of the travel itinerary content was written by Jade Ryerson, an intern with the Cultural Resources Office of Interpretation and Education. Janese Chapman, Deputy Director of Detroit’s Legislative Policy Division with the Historic Designation Advisory Board and Jennifer Reinhardt, a Historic Preservation Planner with the Detroit City Council, Legislative Policy Division of the Historic Designation Advisory Board provided feedback on website content. David Goldstein, Lead for Tribal and Cultural Affairs in the National Park Service’s Region 1 contributed his research and insight. Kat Slocum, Valentin Pulido, and Ariel Schnee conducted the original research on Detroit’s music industry, which informed the music Trip Idea featured on the itinerary. The website was designed in 2020 by Katherine Crawford-Lackey.

Descriptions of historic places featured in this website are based on information in the files of the National Register of Historic Places and the National Historic Landmarks Program. When necessary, image permissions are noted in the captions.

Banner image is public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_downtown_Detroit,_Mich_(62399).jpg

This site replaces the 1998 version of the travel itinerary. The original credits are as follows:

The Detroit Travel Itinerary was produced by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, in cooperation with the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. It was created under the direction of Carol Shull, Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, and is based on information in the files of the National Register.

Property descriptions were written by Nathan Poe, Sarah Pope, Rustin Quaide and Bill Wright of the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers (NCSHPO). The guide was designed by Nathan Poe and Bill Wright with the assistance of Mark Oviatt, also of NCSHPO.

Other materials provided by the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office; the City of Detroit Planning and Development Department; the Detroit Historic District Commission; the Cranbrook Educational Community; the Detroit News Newspaper; the Detroit Tigers, Inc.; the Henry Ford Estate (Fair Lane); Hoyle, Doran and Berry Associates, (Boston, Mass); and the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.

Finally, special thanks to Robert Christensen of the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office, Kristine Kidorf, Historic Preservation Specialist at the Detroit Planning and Development Department, Daniel Hershberger, John Renaud, Ray Jeskey of the Detroit News, and Ethan Anthony of Hoyle, Doran, and Berry Associates all of whom provided invaluable information, cooperation, and enthusiasm that contributed greatly to this project.