Does anyone know the story about the tall, narrow white building in lower right? It's attached to a lower building with arched windows set in larger relieving arches that looks like it might have been a church. The relieving arch to the right is cut off, as if the older building had been shortened to build the white addition at the street.

Also cleaned up nicely in Mr Alex's photo attachment is the brown four story building on the left edge of the picture, at Fort and Second. I worked a summer job in a makeshift factory on the fourth floor sixty years ago. It was well and truly a dump, but I learned a lot from an old toolmaker. Up and down on the rickety elevator was a dodgy daily double thrill ride. Like so much of downtown Detroit, it has been rescued and restored. In the 1908 photo, the location appears to have been occupied by a big Victorian townhouse.

Canashigan.

[Detrontario! - Dave]

... is still there -- and it's cleaned up nicely.

Work is underway by the Michigan Central Railroad to construct a tunnel under the Detroit River. Actually, it is "cut and cover" process as the riverbed is scooped out, so that precast tunnel sections can be lowered in place. The three barges anchored in the river are doing the dredging on a project that will be completed in 1910. On the land, buildings have been cleared to develop the approaches to the tunnel.

Every Windsor resident knows the joke about South Detroit.

This building, now known as the Marquette - yes it's still there! - started with an emphasis on the former, but shifted focus to the latter within a few years.

By 1917 it had been converted to factory use.