Intersections: Where Architecture meets Live Performance in the Motor City

Registration required

This event will be held at the FCL Farmington (Downton Branch on Liberty Street) in the Meeting Room.

This program is being offered in-person and remotely via Zoom. The Zoom link will be included in the registration confirmation email and reminder email sent 48 hours before the event.

Join architectural historian Dale A. Carlson as he examines the histories of twenty architecturally significant live performance venues within the Detroit metropolis, including four in Oakland County. From Harmonie Hall to The Palace of Auburn Hills, Carlson’s PowerPoint presentation and lecture will include dazzling designs by noted Detroit architects C. Howard Crane, Charles N. Agree and Albert Kahn, among others, most built as theaters plus a few unique cases that were not.

Learn of local, in-person appearances by American and European legends over multiple decades including the likes of Sergei Rachmaninoff, The Marx Brothers, Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Bob Hope, Ray Charles, Marlene Dietrich, Dizzy Gillespie, Nina Simone, Led Zeppelin, and of course, the MC-5.

**At the program, Dale A. Carlson will have some of his architectural related books available for sale. All transactions will be handled by Dale A. Carlson. 

This program is Generously sponsored by the Friends of the Farmington Community Library