Corktown Historic District Corktown Historic District Bagley
Street in Corktown |Architectural style:||Colonial Revival, Late
Victorian, Federal| |Added to NRHP:||July 31, 1978| Corktown is
the oldest neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan, although the city
of Detroit is twice as old. The current boundaries of the
current district include I-75 to the north, the Lodge Freeway to
the east, Bagley and Porter streets to the south, and Rosa Parks
Boulevard (12th Street) to the west. The neighborhood was listed
on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The
Corktown Historic District is largely residential, although some
commercial properties along Michigan Avenue are included in the
district. The roots of Corktown lie in the Great Irish Potato
Famine of the 1840s. The Irish immigrated to the United States
in droves, and by the middle of the 19th century, they were the
largest ethnic group settling in Detroit. Many of these
newcomers settled on the west side of the city; they were
primarily from County Cork,