Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, MI

Detroit's Orchestra Hall is the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the city's original concert hall. The outstanding acoustics of the three-story, brick-walled building and its graceful architecture combine to make the building one of the city's landmark structures. Built in 1919 from designs by Detroit's premier theater architect Charles Howard Crane, the hall was completed in four months in order to secure internationally renowned conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch.

Over the next 20 years Orchestra Hall hosted 268 Detroit premieres, 18 American premieres, and 3 world premieres. Artists including Serge Rachmanioff, Vladimir Horowitz, Igor Stravinski, and many others performed at the hall. The building later operated as the Paradise Theater for vaudeville and movies, and became the Church of Our Prayer until 1955. Beautifully restored thanks to preservation efforts starting in 1970, the hall is again open and home to the city's celebrated orchestra.