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Demolition begins at night unannounced on Aug. 14, 1961. Photo from the Detroit Free Press archives.
Demolition moves to the northwest corner. The demolition work was done at night. Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library.
Half of City Hall lies in rubble in September 1961. Photo from Detroit Free Press archives.
The rubble is mostly gone, carted away to be used as fill at a marina in St. Clair Shores. Photo from Walter P. Reuther Library.
The statues of French pioneers are now at Wayne State University. Photo from Detroit Free Press archives.
The porch lies in a heap in front of Old City Hall. Photo from Detroit Free Press Archives.
One of the maidens of virtue is removed from the cupola in pieces. Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library.
The clock tower was the last piece to come down. Photo from Walter P. Reuther Library.
Nov. 1, 1961: Nothing remains. Demo signs are on the Majestic Building, which met the same fate. Photo from Free Press archives.
The clock faces and sculptor Julius T. Melchers' four maidens went to Ft. Wayne in pieces. Photo from Walter P. Reuther Library.
Nearly the entire northwest corner is reduced to rubble. Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library.
One of the heads of the virtues statues is lowered. They were removed in pieces. Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library.
Nearly a century of Detroit history reduced to nothing but a heaping mound of rubble. Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library.
Demolition is finished and work on razing the Majestic begins, its windows removed. Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library.
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