Photos: The Ruins of Detroit

French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre set out to document the decline of an American city

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William Livingstone House #

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Michigan Central Station #

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Woodward Avenue #

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Atrium, Farwell Building #

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18th floor dentist cabinet, David Broderick Tower #

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Bagley-Clifford Office of the National Bank of Detroit #

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David Whitney Building #

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United Artists Theater #

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Fort Shelby Hotel #

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Ballroom, American Hotel #

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Melted clock, Cass Technical High School #

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Donovan Building #

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Old First Unitarian Church #

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Piano, Saint Albertus School #

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Luben Apartments #

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Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church, built in the Gothic revival style in 1911 #

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Rich-Dex Apartments #

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Classroom, St Margaret Mary School #

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Biology classroom, Wilbur Wright High School #

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St Christopher House, ex-Public Library #

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Fisher Body 21 Plant #

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Room 1504, Lee Plaza Hotel #

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Detroit?s Vanity Ballroom with its unsalvaged art deco chandeliers. Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey once played here. #

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Packard Motors Plant #

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Waiting hall, Michigan Central Station #

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East Methodist Church #

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East Side Public Library #

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Offices, Highland Park Police Station #

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Biology classroom at George W Ferris School in the Detroit suburb of Highland Park #

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The ballroom of the 15-floor art-deco Lee Plaza Hotel, an apartment building with hotel services built in 1929 and derelict since the early 1990s #

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Michigan Theatre #

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Packard Motors Plant #