Brick + Beam Detroit

POSTPONED! Researching Your Home's History!

As the COVID-19 situation continues to develop, and in the interest of community safety, we are postponing our upcoming programming. This event will be postponed. We will be contacting those who have already registered with options.

Join us at the Burton Historical Collection to learn more about researching your older home or commercial building at this FREE event. Don't worry-- your home doesn't have to be designated as historic to have a history!

What we'll cover: 

• An overview of the Burton Historical Collection from a Librarian

• Group sessions and hands-on research with Sanborne Maps, Directories, and Card Catalogs

• Navigating other resources at the City & County where you can look up property records

Brick + Beam, Preservation Detroit, Book Suey, and representatives from the City of Detroit will be there to help you use the resources.  

Please bring your own laptop if you're able to in order to access certain resources.

This event is $5 for Detroit Residents & $10 for Metro Detroit Residents 

About the Burton Historical Collection:

The Burton Historical Collection (BHC) of the Detroit Public Library began as the private library of Clarence Monroe Burton, a prominent attorney and Detroit historiographer. Mr. Burton’s original intention was to assemble a collection on the history of Detroit. Realizing that Detroit’s history was inextricably connected to that of Michigan and the Old Northwest, Canada and New France, he assembled a collection that is one of the most important private historical collections in the country.