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How the World's Tallest Train Station was Abandoned - The story of Michigan Central (8x24)

: 30, 2021

Around the beginning of the 1910s, when Detroit was starting to grow into a major city, construction of a new railway station was nearing completion. Constructed in the Beaux Arts style, Michigan Central Station was designed by the several of the same architects that had designed New York City’s Grand Central Station. A core in the northeastern US’s mobilization in WWII, and once the tallest railway station in the world, But it now sits empty, abandoned and forgotten, but that may not be the case for long…