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Mason & Kahn

Architecture firm

Bonstelle Theatre, Detroit's Brush Park, 1903 Photo: Saul Vielmetti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Bonstelle Theatre leads Mason & Kahn's work on record here, the theater that went up in Detroit's Brush Park in 1903. It is one of 5 works by Mason & Kahn on record across Detroit.

works on record in Metro Detroit
5
Detroit neighborhoods
4

Mason & Kahn's Metro Detroit, drawn to scale

All 5 of Mason & Kahn's works on record, oldest at left. None has a height on record, so each is drawn at one standard size in the shape of its kind.

All 5 of Mason & Kahn's works on record, oldest at left. None has a height on record, so each is drawn at one standard size in the shape of its kind.

Bonstelle Theatre

1903, Detroit, height not on record, drawn at one standard size

Still standing, photographed 2023

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The story

By Victoria Jackson, Editor in Chief Updated

Of everything Mason & Kahn designed here, the Bonstelle Theatre leads the list, a theater in Detroit's Brush Park, finished in 1903.

Every one of Mason & Kahn's 5 works on record still stands. The record opens in 1902 with the Frederick L. Colby House, during the boom years when the auto industry turned Detroit into one of the fastest growing cities in America, and closes in 1904 with Belle Isle Aquarium. The 1900s were Mason & Kahn's busiest decade here, with 5 works on record.

Albert Kahn is credited beside Mason & Kahn on the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory and Belle Isle Aquarium. George D. Mason is credited beside Mason & Kahn on the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory and Belle Isle Aquarium.

In Detroit it reaches 4 neighborhoods, among them Belle Isle, Brush Park, and Indian Village. Anyone tracing Mason & Kahn's work can begin at the Frederick L. Colby House at 1059 Seminole St and follow the map from there.

Every Mason & Kahn work on record here

Where their buildings stand

5 works on the map

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  • Standing
  • Demolished
  • Altered
  • Works close together

5 works on the map

Who Mason & Kahn worked with

  • Albert Kahn on the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory and Belle Isle Aquarium
  • George D. Mason on the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory and Belle Isle Aquarium

Where the work stands

In the Detroit Ledger

Photo credits

All 3 photos on Mason & Kahn's page, each with its author, license and the original.

  1. The Bonstelle Theatre in Detroit, with adjacent lot to the north, pictured in early 2023 Photo: Saul Vielmetti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  2. The Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory (1904) is a greenhouse and botanical garden in Detroit, Michigan, United States, 2009 Photo: PDru2014 from Detroit, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  3. [The Aquarium and conservatory, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.] Photo: Detroit Publishing Company, no known restrictions, via Library of Congress

Sources

The facts on Mason & Kahn come from Historic Detroit; Rebuild Detroit wrote the story above from them, and each photo names its license.