Downtown Detroit has its very own neo-Venetian Gothic, complete with lions! Met Alice off the bus from Ann Arbor, and we wandered around some, admiring the architecture ... (and being turned out of the Art Deco Penobscot building, since No Tourists Allowed). Then over to Belle Isle, where it was freezing cold, and we took temporary refuge in the Aquarium - which opened in 1904, and was like something from the British seaside. Here's a sturgeon, and then other fishies ...
The conservatories are being restored, so closed ...
but we really wanted to see the Piet Oudolf garden - the real motivation for heading over there - which was looking suitably autumnal.
Then we tried to go to the African American museum - but it was closed for it annual fundraising gala, alas.
Tried to go to the Scarab club, to see its Arts and Crafts decoration - but it was closed for a wedding.
And finally out to dinner - to Selden Standard, which had quite wonderful food, but was unbearably, bone-shakingly noisy - impossible to have any kind of conversation. So all in all - a day of some beauty, but many frustrations.
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