TWIW — Mariners' Church, 1955 - Hour Detroit Magazine

TWIW — Mariners' Church, 1955 - Hour Detroit Magazine

1955 Seventy years ago, Detroit demonstrated that achieving both urban renewal and historic preservation was possible. To make way for a new civic center development while the since-demolished Ford Auditorium (left) was being constructed, over a four-month period, the 6 million-ton Mariners’ Church (center) was moved 800 feet eastward on a complex arrangement of steel rollers to the current location next to the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel entrance. I…