Brick + Beam Detroit, a support network for Detroit's building rehab community, is hiring an Executive Director! This leadership role will expand the project's programming, build community partnerships, and help create a sustainable model for the future of the organization.

Preservation Detroit is hauling out the last of its files from the David Mackenzie House on the Wayne State University campus as it settles into a new home at Bethel Community Transformation Center in the city's North End.

This year will mark the 30th annual Theatre Tour, one of Preservation Detroit’s most anticipated and beloved annual events. The Theatre Tour is your chance to get behind-the-scenes at some of the most unique and beautiful buildings in Detroit, including the Music Hall, the Fox Theatre, the Detroit Opera House, the Fillmore, the Gem and Century Theatres, and the Michigan Theatre.

The David Mackenzie House Scholarship seeks to award students who are pursuing degrees in historic preservation or a related field (urban planning, history, architecture, American studies, etc., with an emphasis on historic preservation).

After a nearly year-long battle, the City Council voted to approve the designation of the Cass-Henry Historic District. This is one of the few in-tact blocks of historic apartment buildings left in Cass Corridor.

Have you ever seen people giving tours to large groups and think, “I could do that!”? Do you possess a lot of Detroit knowledge but always trying to learn more? Are you always looking for an excuse to share that knowledge? Well, we just might have the opportunity for you!

We are asking City Council to transfer ownership of the National ONLY with a requirement that the developer shall, before any permits are pulled, collaborate with City of Detroit design and historic preservation staff to undertake a design alternatives

Façadism or facadectomy is the act of retaining the façade of a building while constructing a new internal structure behind or within the original front facing elevation’s shell. This intervention can result from a compromise reached by the developer and the local historic commission or preservation community. Occasionally, new development does not take place and the original building is demolished while the façade remains supported by scaffold.