Grand Circus Park (Detroit)
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Grand Circus Park, a part of Augustus Woodward's plan to rebuild the city after the fire of 1805, is an open space in downtown Detroit, Michigan that connects the theatre district with its financial center. It is on Woodward Avenue, down the street from Campus Martius Park. The city established the park in 1850. The grounds include antique statuary and old-fashioned water fountains. Near this historic site, General George Armstrong Custer delivered a eulogy for thousands gathered to mourn the death of President Abraham Lincoln.
The park is divided down its center by Woodward Avenue, the main thoroughfare of Detroit. Its eastern half is anchored by a central fountain and capped on its north western edge with a statue of William Cotter Maybury. Its western half is anchored by a central fountain and capped on its north eastern edge with a statue of Hazen Pingree.
Among the notable buildings encircling the park are the David Broderick Tower and David Whitney Building on the south, Kales Building, former Adams Theater, and First Methodist Church on the north, and Comerica Park and Detroit Opera House on the East. The western edge of the park was formerly home to the now demolished Statler Hotel and Hotel Tuller.
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- Sobocinski, Melanie Grunow (2005). Detroit and Rome: building on the past. Regents of the University of Michigan. ISBN 0933691092.
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