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Historian Furious After Detroit Land Bank Destroys Rare Log Cabin

March 11, 2019, 6:49 AM


The west-side house at 2038 Halleck St. in Detroit was razed last month. 

Here's a head-scratcher of a story Neal Rubin of The Detroit News unearthed:

Preservationists were giddy when they found a rare log cabin just north of Hamtramck that might have been built before the Civil War. Then the Detroit Land Bank Authority demolished it.

The historian who hoped to move the cabin to the park in front of Hamtramck's City Hall is furious. The Wayne State archaeologist who examined it is suspicious. The land bank is resolute.

As for the cabin, it's in a landfill in Northville.

"We did all this work," says Greg Kowalski, chairman of the Hamtramck Historical Museum. "They just went ahead and demolished it right out from under our noses."

The house at 2038 Halleck St. on Detroit's west side was razed in February. 


Read more:  The Detroit News


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