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Lafayette Park is a neighborhood located east of Downtown Detroit. It contains a residential area of some 4,900 people and covers 0.07 sq mi. The northern section, planned and partially built in the 1950s by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places; it was designated a National Historic Landmark District ...
It is also the largest collection of Mies van der Rohe designed buildings in the world. One of the first planned urban renewal projects in the country, Lafayette Park was and has remained one of the most fully realized and most successful urban renewal developments of the mid-twentieth century.
The site contains the largest collection of buildings by the architect Mies van der Rohe in the world, as well as the only group of row houses built to his specifications. Lafayette Park remains one of the most stable neighborhoods in the City of Detroit, with a committed community of residents.
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Explore historic locations in Detroit, Hamtramck, Highland Park, and more using the Historically Significant Interactive Map of Detroit.
The Lafayette Park by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was built in Detroit, United States in 1958-1963.
