Once
the tallest structure in Detroit and long a landmark to sailors on Lake St. Clair, the detonated stacks of the"Seven Sisters" settle atop the rubble of the electric plant that powered the automobile revolution.
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The
Seven Sisters
In
the first two decades of the 20th Century, an unprecedented
development of massive industrial structures changed the face
of Detroit and heralded a second industrial revolution.
Today
all of those structures are in ruins, abandoned, decayed or
destroyed.