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Joe Louis Arena

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1979–1980, Smith, Hinchman and Grylls. 600 Civic Center Dr.

This sports arena for basketball and hockey seats 20,000. Although Detroit's professional basketball team, the Pistons, elected to move to the Palace in Auburn Hills, the professional hockey team, the Detroit Red Wings, continues to play here.

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Author: 
Kathryn Bishop Eckert
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Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Joe Louis Arena", [Detroit, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-WN4.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Michigan

Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 57-57.

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