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New Center is a prominent commercial and residential historic district located uptown in Detroit, Michigan, adjacent to Midtown, one mile (1.6 km) north of the Cultural Center, and approximately three miles (5 km) north of Downtown. The area is centered just west of the intersection of Woodward Avenue and Grand Boulevard, and is approximately bounded by the Virginia Park Historic District on the north, the Edsel Ford Freeway (I-94) on the south, John R Street on the east and the Lodge Freeway on the west.〔(Randall Fogelman, ) ''Detroit's New Center,'' Arcadia Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7385-3271-1.〕 New Center, and the surrounding areas north of I-94, are often referred to simply as the North End. The heart of New Center was developed in the 1920s as a business hub that would offer convenient access to both downtown resources and outlying factories. Some historians believe that New Center may be the original edge city—a sub-center remote from, but related to, a main urban core.〔 The descriptor "New Center" derived its name from the ''New Center News'', an automotive-focused free newspaper begun in 1933 that continues to operate under the name ''Detroit Auto Scene''. From 1923 to 1996, General Motors maintained its world headquarters in New Center (in what is now Cadillac Place) before relocating downtown to the Renaissance Center; before becoming a division of GM, Fisher Body was headquartered in the Fisher Building. Both Cadillac Place and the Fisher Building are National Historic Landmarks. In addition to the government and commercial offices along Woodward and Grand Boulevard, New Center contains the Fisher Theatre, the Hotel St. Regis, the Henry Ford Hospital, restaurants, and residential areas. ==History== In 1891, Detroit mayor Hazen S. Pingree broke ground on the construction of Grand Boulevard, a ring road that wrapped around the city of Detroit.〔Richard Bak, ''Detroit Across Three Centuries,'' Sleeping Bear Press, 2001, ISBN 1-58536-001-5, p. 60.]〕 The Boulevard ran for , curving from the Detroit River on the west to the river on the east and crossing Woodward Avenue at a point approximately from downtown.〔 The Boulevard was originally thought to represent the absolute limit of the city's expansion, although tremendous growth at the beginning of the 20th century quickly pushed the city limits far beyond Grand Boulevard.〔 In the 1890s, major railroad infrastructure known as the Milwaukee Junction was built just south of Grand Boulevard to facilitate industrial expansion in the city of Detroit.〔(Eric J. Hill, John Gallagher, and the American Institute of Architects Detroit Chapter, ) ''AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture,'' Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2002, ISBN 0-8143-3120-3. pp. 168-169.〕 To take advantage of the rail line, industrial plants were built in this area on both sides of Woodward Avenue, with the automotive industry prominently involved. Part of this area east of Woodward is now the Piquette Avenue Industrial Historic District, while the area west of Woodward and south of the railroad tracks is the New Amsterdam Historic District. Most notably, in 1904, Burroughs Adding Machine Company built a large factory on Third, and the following year Cadillac built an assembly plant just to the east of Burroughs.〔Fogelman, pp. 57-66.〕 In 1915, Henry Ford bought the financially struggling Detroit General Hospital and its lands on Grand Boulevard and Hamilton (just west of Woodward) and reopened it as Henry Ford Hospital with 48 beds.〔Fogelman, pp. 9-20〕 Soon after, Ford broke ground on a facility at the same location; the larger hospital opened in 1921.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Center, Detroit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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