Businesses of Delray

4461 Jefferson Detroit Harbor Terminals provide dockage and storage for Great Lakes shipping.

5425 Jefferson City of Detroit Mistersky Power Station

Jefferson (south side) of Cavalry Entrance to Historic Fort Wayne

6701 Jefferson The Detroit Edison Company Delray Power Plant (major pollutor of Delray)

Jefferson (south side) at Post This the former site of the Detroit International Fair held from 1891-1894. 70 acres of ground and the world's largest exhibition hall was built. 50,000 visitors per day.

Jefferson (south side) from Post to the Wabash Railroad tracks - Site of the Solvay Process Company built in 1894 on Exposition grounds. The plant no longer exists here.

Jefferson (south side) at Green Street Former location of Delray General Hospital, originally the industrial clinic for the Solvay Process Co. Torn down in the 1970's.

6986 Jefferson at Post Kovacs Bar (Netovabb) one of the more famous spots in Old Delray. Still in business. Stop in and toast your ancestors!

800 Cottrell Recreation Center.

Corner of South Street Church of God in Christ.

Cottrell, Solvay and Crossley, just north of W. Jefferson were the center of the original Armenian settlement of Delray.

Jefferson (south side) at Wabash Railroad tracks - entrance to Allied Chemical Co and Zug Island. Zug Island's tax base belongs to River Rouge.

7914 Jefferson Delray United Action Council

7907 Jefferson Former home of the 'Detroit Ujsag' (Detroit News) a Hungarian language newspaper

8124 Burdeno Hebrew Congregation of Delray built in 1918 and sold to the Petofi Club in 1947, now Full Gospel Holy Ghost Deliverance Church

8156 Burdeno Former home of the Hungarian Butchers and Grocers Association meeting hall built in 1944 Building now houses Prayerband Mission Baptist Church

8156 Burdeno Former site of German Evangelical Church, built in 1888, replaced in the early 1920's with the present apartment building.

Thaddeus Street This street contained the homes of the Hungarian elite in the 1920's.

8151 Thaddeus First Hungarian Lutheran Church

Continue east on Thaddeus. On the north side, just before you reach West End, you will see the homes which up to the early 1900's house the last remaining descendants of the French settlement. City property records show that they were replaced by Hungarians soon after the turn of the century.

McMillan Junior High School Built in 1889. Once considered one of the finest in Detroit. Abandoned.

Vanderbilt Street Well-to-do Hungarians owned nicer homes here.

400 Vanderbilt First Hungarian Baptist Church

Keller and Lyon Streets These two streets have been almost completely Hungarian since the early 1900's.

844 S. Harbough at Pulaski St. John Cantius Polish Catholic Church.

8800 Joey's Stables Famous for excellent food, sold and bull-dozed by the City of Detroit in the early 1990's. Photographs from owner Jack Nykiel coming soon!

Jefferson - On the south side between Pulaski and Dearborn. Up until the late 1960's several families occupied houseboats here. It was also one of the stops for rumrunners.

North side of Jefferson - all buildings to White Street have been torn down.

South Street Corner of South and Harbaugh is St. John The Baptist Hungary Byzantine Rite Catholic Church

East on South Street Holy Cross Hungarian Catholic Church

Northeast corner on West End Al's Lounge - WONDERFUL Hungarian cooking. Now closed.

Northwest corner on West End Szabo's Market Owner was Steve Szabo Hungarian food specialties. Now closed.

Vanderbilt Street Evangelical Reformed Church built 1927

View looking east on West Jefferson

View looking west on Jefferson

Peninsular Bank on W. Jefferson

8346 Jefferson Delray Super Market featuring Hungarin specialty meats, groceries and imported foods. Proprietor was Miklos Nagy.

8148 Jefferson Fancy Pastry Shop. Baker was Al Kocsisko (1892-1973) and son, Al, jr. Business now located in Allen Park.

8124 Jefferson King's Coney Island Owner was Mr. Yee Tong

8120 Jefferson Delray Music Shop Owner was Mrs. John Poncsak Hungarian records, sheet music and imported embroideries, potteries, china and gifts

8022 Jefferson Mini Police Station

8000 Jefferson Fox Hardware and Appliances Owner was William Casman

8020 W. Jefferson Delray Neighborhood City Hall

8005 Jefferson Magyar Haz (Hungarian Center) 80 years old in 2006

Medina and Barnes Streets Center of the Gypsy community of Delray

8051 Jefferson Michigan Cleaners Was owned by James Tagani

1001 Springwells Hungarian Village Restaurant Owner was Dave Ganus Music was provided by Sanyika and his Gypsy orchestra

8147 W. Jefferson Site of Babas Studios This is where everyone went to have their wedding portraits done. Built in 1910 and now owned by John Koutoulakis

West Jefferson Fire House

Unknown bar on W. Jefferson

South Street home before & after

Debrecean's Restaurant

Victor Racz Photography Studio

Michigan Carbon Works

Rose's Bar West Jefferson near West End. Owned by Rose Butka (owner of Hungarian Kitchen)

Sunshine Pork (moved to Ohio due to zero tax breaks from City of Detroit)

Stain Glass Works West Fort Street (designed and made the stained glass for Holy Cross Church)

Tar's Supermarket on Dearborn

Tony Papovich's Hungarian Meat Market on Jefferson, just off Dearborn.

Zolkower's Department Store, corner of Dearborn and Jefferson.