The Players

The Players is a Michigan historical marker in Detroit, Wayne County, dedicated 1987.

Wayne County · dedicated 1987 · 3321 East Jefferson Ave, Detroit

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The Players, a Detroit gentlemen’s amateur theatre club founded in 1911, opened this playhouse in 1926. The handsome building was created by club members William E. Kapp, architect; Corrado Parducci, stone sculptor; and Paul Honoré, muralist. The playhouse, built in the style of the sixteenth-century English Renaissance, was one of the earliest major structures in the area to use cinder block laid in ashlar on its interior walls to give the appearance of cut stone. It has been in continual use as a playhouse since its completion.

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