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- W. Hawkins Ferry was one of four children of businessman and politician Dexter M. Ferry Jr. He was a prominent proponent of Detroit architecture, and in 1964 hired architect William Henry Kessler to design this house, a Modern two-story, flat-roofed, cubic residence. (en)
- This neighborhood was developed by the Ford Foundation, and includes single family houses and duplexes, apartment buildings, a shopping center, and multiple parks. It is distinguished by its gently curving streets with numerous cul-de-sacs. (en)
- The Highland Park Presbyterian Church was established in 1893 as a mission church of the First Presbyterian Church of Detroit. Three years later a small chapel was built on the site of the present church. However, the congregation grew to over two hundred members, and the present building was constructed from 1910 to 1911. The building is now known as the Park United Presbyterian Church. (en)
- Hamtramck Stadium, also known as Roesink Stadium, is one of only 12 remaining Negro league baseball stadiums. It was home to the Detroit Stars of 1930-31, 1933, and 1937. It was also home to the Detroit Wolves who played in 1932. (en)
- In 1825, Moses Bradford moved to Canton Township, one of the first settlers to stake a claim in the area. The following year, Aruna and Mary Bradford, Moses's parents, followed their son to Canton Township. On arrival, they bought the property this house now sits on; in 1835 they sold the parcel to their other son, Benjamin. In 1860, Benjamin built the house that now stands on the property; it remained in the Bradford family until 1911. (en)
- The Commandant's Quarters was built in 1833 as part of the Detroit Arsenal, which was relocated from Detroit due to fear that the stored explosives would endanger the city's population. It is the oldest building in Dearborn still located on its original site, and is considered to be one of the seven most significant buildings in Michigan. (en)
- This house was a , -story Tudor Revival built in the shape of a U. It was built for Paul Harvey Deming, Chairman of the Board of the George Worthington Company. The house was demolished in 1997. (en)
- The Norwayne subdivision was originally built in 1942 by the National Housing Agency to house workers employed at nearby defense industry plants, including the Willow Run Bomber Plant. The project originally had 1189 residential buildings, a Management Office, a fire station, a church, three elementary schools, Norris Jefferson and Lincoln and several commercial properties. Streets in the subdivision are primarily curvilinear, following the Federal Housing Administration guidelines published in the late 1930s. (en)
- This school was established in 1887 as a boarding school for young ladies by the Religious of the Sacred Heart, an order of cloistered nuns. It is now run as an independent day school, known as the Grosse Pointe Academy, by a lay Board of Trustees who continue the educational mission of the school. (en)
- Built in 1922, this "Chicago city type of single trunnion, double-leaf bascule bridge" replaced a narrow swing bridge, allowing the Rouge River to be widened to provide freighter access to the Ford River Rouge Complex. The Rouge River marks the boundary between the cities of River Rouge and Detroit, and this listing is also included in the List of Registered Historic Places in Detroit, Michigan. (en)
- The William B. and Mary Chase Stratton House was built in 1927 as a collaborative venture between husband-and-wife William Buck Stratton and Mary Chase Perry Stratton . The house design was heavily influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the Strattons used natural material, texture, and color to create an original and masterly composition. (en)
- St. James Episcopal Church was constructed in 1867. Funds to build the church came primarily from the estate of Lisette Denison Forth, a freed slave who had willed the bulk of her savings to the purpose of constructing an Episcopalian house of worship. The red doors of the structure are dedicated to the memory and benevolence of Lisette Denison Forth. (en)
- The Highland Park General Hospital is a significant landmark in the history of Highland Park. The hospital was one of the first two institutions established when Highland Park incorporated as a city in 1916. The primary building faces Glendale, and includes the original hospital building, built in 1918, and the attached nurses' residence, built in 1925. (en)
- This bridge designed is a concrete T-beam bridge, completed in 1939 using labor from the Works Progress Administration. (en)
- The Phillip and Maria Hasselbach Dingledey House was an upright and wing style farmhouse with a relatively unusual double upright. The house is no longer at its listed location; a small commercial complex now occupies the site. (en)
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- The Cherry Hill Historic District contains buildings on Cherry Hill and Ridge Roads in the unincorporated crossroads community of Cherry Hill. Cherry Hill was established in 1825, and the district includes the Italianate Cherry Hill House inn, the Gothic Revival Cherry Hill United Methodist Church and associated cemetery, the Cherry Hill School, the Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House, the Thomas and Isabella Moore Clyde House, and buildings used for one of Henry Ford's Village industry projects. (en)
- The East River Road – North Hickory Canal Bridge is continuous concrete slab bridge. Wayne County used this type of bridge in the years during and after World War II, presumably because of the difficulty of obtaining steel during these years. (en)
- This school was built using stock plans available free of charge from the state superintendent of public instruction, and is a rare surviving unremodeled example of a school featuring every detail of the original plans. It is still used as the John C. Raeside Administration Building of the Redford Union School District. (en)
- The Jos. Campau Historic District contains a unique collection of early 20th century commercial architecture, constructed as Hamtramck expanded in the wake of the 1915 opening of the nearby Dodge Main Plant. (en)
- The William and Margot Kessler House was constructed in 1959 by architect William Kessler for himself, his wife Margot, and his family. The most dramatic features of the house are the saw-tooth roof and the textured brick privacy fence that creates an enclosed garden along the front of the house. (en)
- In 1868, a frame chapel for interdenominational services was built behind where the First United Methodist Church currently stands. The site went through different hands, and in 1916, the Methodist congregation built the present Gothic church. In 1956, the original frame chapel behind the present church was demolished. Since 1995, Soul Harvest Ministries has operated from the building. (en)
- The John T. Woodhouse House is a private house designed by George D. Mason. (en)
- The Beverly Road Historic District covers the original area of the Beverly Park Subdivision, platted by Henry B. Joy in 1911. The district was one of the earliest upper-class subdivisions in the Grosse Pointes, and marked the change of the area from a farming and summer-home community into an upscale year-round community. (en)
- At the beginning of the War of 1812, troops under the command of General William Hull constructed what became known as "Hull's Trace," a military road running from Urbana, Ohio to Fort Detroit. This corduroy road segment is the only known extant portion of what was the first military road and first federal road in the United States. (en)
- This school, named for Father Gabriel Richard , was designed by Robert O. Derrick in the French Renaissance style. It first opened its doors in September 1930, with a population of 389 students. (en)
- This house was built for Henry W. Baker, president of the Plymouth Iron Windmill Company, which in 1888 introduced the Daisy air rifle and later changed its name to the Daisy Manufacturing Company. The house is of a fanciful Italianate design, likely based on an illustration in a pattern book. The house was a landmark in Plymouth because of the unusual tower, shaped like a pagoda, atop the mansard roof. (en)
- In 1844, John Patterson married Eliza Barr; the couple purchased another plot of land and built this Greek Revival house. The farm remained in the family until 1999. The grounds still contain rose, daylily, and peony plantings that date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (en)
- Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church was originally a mission on the west side of Detroit, and the congregation worshipped in built a frame Victorian Gothic chapel one block south of the current site. The present cathedral was built from 1929 to 1930, and was used by the congregation until 1979, when the Grace Evangelical congregation sold their church building to an Apostolic African-American congregation, the Prayer Temple of Love Cathedral. (en)
- The Ferry Street-Thorofare Canal Bridge is a good representative example of a continuous concrete slab, used by the Wayne County Road Commission during World War II and immediately after, presumably due to the difficulty of obtaining steel. (en)
- The Dodge Mansion, also known as Rose Terrace, was built by Anna Thompson Dodge and her then-husband, Hugh Dillman, in 1931-34. It was located on the site of an earlier mansion built by Anna and Horace Dodge, also known as Rose Terrace. The 1931 version of Rose Terrace was an enormous, 42,000 square feet French-style chateau overlooking Lake St. Clair. Anna Dodge lived at Rose Terrace until her death in 1970, and the house was demolished in 1976. (en)
- In 1938, the Wyandotte school board hired architect Carl R. Jensen to design this building. The school opened in March 1940, and was used until 2009, when declining enrollment led the school board to close it. As of 2017, the building was being rehabilitated for housing. (en)
- Trinity United Methodist was built by the Cass United Methodist Church of Detroit as a mission church to serve membership in Highland Park who lived too far to travel the eight miles to Cass United. It is now known as the New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church. (en)
- This listing comprises two separate bridges: the Jefferson Avenue Bridge, which carries W. Jefferson Avenue over the Huron River and the smaller Harbin Drive Bridge spanning the Silver Creek Canal. The Jefferson Avenue Bridge connects Wayne County to Berlin Charter Township in Monroe County and is also listed on the NRHP listings in Monroe County article. (en)
- The Gibraltar Road Bridge is an unusual reinforced-concrete cantilevered-arch bridge. After construction, the Wayne County Road Commissioners noted that "this low sweeping arch bridge is in keeping with its surroundings and is one of the features which make Gibraltar Road so attractive." (en)
- The Sheldon Inn is a two-story Greek Revival apartment building, previously used as a single-family home and a travelers' inn. The Inn was built by Timothy and Rachel Sheldon, one of the first families to settle in Canton Township, in 1825. (en)
- The Henry Ford is the nation's "largest indoor-outdoor history museum" complex. Named for its founder, the noted automobile industrialist Henry Ford, and based on his desire to preserve items of historical significance and portray the Industrial Revolution, the property houses a vast array of famous homes, machinery, exhibits, and Americana. It is also known as the Edison Institute or Greenfield Village. (en)
- This Modernist house was the first commission for the father-and-son firm of Eliel and Eero Saarinen. The house integrates the exterior architecture, sculpture, interior design, lighting, and furnishings. (en)
- The Highland Park Ford Plant was a production plant for Ford Motor Company The plant was designed by Albert Kahn in 1908 and was opened in 1910. Because of its spacious design, it set the precedent for many factories and production plants built thereafter. In 1913, the Highland Park Ford Plant became the first automobile production facility in the world to implement the assembly line (en)
- The St. Paul Roman Catholic parish was the first Catholic parish in the Grosse Pointes, organized in 1835 but with roots back to the 1790s. The present church building, the third for the parish, was designed by Harry J. Rill and was completed in 1899[2] at a cost of just over $23,000. The church is constructed of brick and stone, and is designed in the French Gothic Revival style, an unusual class of architecture in the Detroit area. (en)
- In 1897, Edward Ford hired Malcomson & Higginbotham to design this house for himself and his wife Carrie. Ford lived in the house only a short time, and in 1902, his daughter Mary Ford Bacon and her husband Mark R. Bacon moved in, residing in the house until 1942. The house is now used as the Bacon Memorial District Library. (en)
- The Parke Lane Road-Thorofare Canal Bridge is of a rare cantilevered concrete arch design. The traditional arch bridge design requires a complete arch. In contrast, the cantilevered arch design is divided into two structurally independent half-arches which are each cantilevered from one side with a slab suspended between the two cantilevered sections. (en)
- The Russell A. Alger Jr. House was built in 1910 and served as the family home of Russell A. Alger Jr. until 1949, when it was donated to the community and dedicated to the memory of veterans and soldiers of World War II. It was rechristened the Grosse Pointe War Memorial, and is also known as The Moorings. (en)
- The Dearborn Inn, was conceived by Henry Ford, who saw a need for food and accommodations for visitors flying into the nearby Ford Airport. The Inn was designed by architect Albert Kahn, and upon its opening in 1931 became the first airport hotel in the country. (en)
- The Grosse Pointe Episcopal congregation began as a branch of Christ Church Detroit in 1923. This building, completed in 1930, was initially referred to as a "chapel," because it was intended to be one element of a larger building. The Neo-Gothic chapel is built in a Latin cross configuration with a tower at one corner. (en)
- In 1921, in response to the influx of families, five school districts in what is now the Grosse Pointe area were consolidated into Rural Agricultural District No. 1 . The first building constructed after consolidation was Defer Elementary School, built on the site of a rhubarb patch owned by Ludwig Meininger. (en)
- Grosse Pointe South was added to the Register for its significance in architecture, art, and education. The school anchors one of Grosse Pointe's most historically significant neighborhoods, the Beverly Road Historic District. Grosse Pointe Memorial Presbyterian Church, Christ Church Grosse Pointe, and Richard Elementary School are all within two blocks of the school. (en)
- Carl E. Schmidt was a tanner with a successful Detroit business; he was also a close friend and political advisor to Hazen Pingree, who served as both mayor of Detroit and governor of Michigan. Schmidt and his wife Alice built this Shingle-style house in 1909. (en)
- The Palmer Park Boulevard Apartments District is a collection of three apartment building located at 1981, 2003 and 2025 West McNichols Road. These three adjacent buildings were all built in the same time period , all were designed by the same architect , and all share a uniform height, setback, and general plan. (en)
- The Thomas Clyde House is a -story clapboard upright and wing Greek Revival house with an unusual asymmetrical facade. It was built c. 1845, and moved from its original location across the street to its present location in 1924. (en)
- This district is located in the heart of old Northville, and is primarily residential, although the 73 contributing structures include several commercial buildings and a church. The majority of district consists of Gothic Revival houses constructed between 1860 and 1880. (en)
- The Tivadar and Dorothy Balogh House was constructed in 1958-59 by architect Tividar Balogh for himself, his wife, Dorothy and their family. The house is a two-story cubic structure, clad in redwood siding. The house sits on a partial basement on one side and support posts on the other side. The section beneath the house was originally open; the space beneath gives the house an impressive "lightness" and makes it appear to hover above the landscape. (en)
- The design of this 1938 building, created by supervising architect of the treasury Louis A. Simon, was used for a number of other Depression-era post offices in the state of Michigan. (en)
- This complex is a Ford Motor Company automobile factory complex located along the Rouge River. Construction on the plant began in 1917, and when it was completed in 1928 it had become the largest integrated factory in the world. The Rouge measures wide by long, including 93 buildings with nearly of factory floor space. (en)
- Greenmead Farms was originally the farm of Joshua Simmons, who moved to the property in 1825. The farm includes the 1829 North Barn and an 1841 Greek Revival farmhouse. Additional structures, including four mid-19th-century farmhouses, have been moved to the property as the surrounding area has been developed. (en)
- This complex includes three connected municipal structures: the 1921 Dearborn City Hall designed by Marcus Burrowes, the 1929 Police and Municipal Courts Building, and a non-contributing office/auditorium concourse addition constructed in 1981. (en)
- This house is a Greek Revival farmhouse, of post and beam construction, sided with wood and sitting on a stone foundation. It was built in 1850 by Orrin Kinyon, the son of one of Canton Township's original settlers. (en)
- In 1896, Edward Ford hired Malcomson & Higginbotham to design this home as wedding gift for his daughter Laura on her marriage to George P. MacNichol. The house is currently used as the Wyandotte Historical Museum. (en)
- The land this house sits on was first farmed by William Smith of England, who purchased of land in 1830. William Smith and his wife Mary Collins Smith raised seven children on this farm, establishing a long line of Smiths farming in Canton Township. William's grandson George Smith Jr. married Mary Pine, and in 1904, George Jr. and Mary Smith spent $2,058.76 to build the house that now sits on the property. Although the present acreage is small, outbuildings on the property give the feel of the old farmstead and the wooded edges isolate the house from the surrounding modern developments. (en)
- This farmstead includes an 1897 Queen Anne house built by the children of German immigrants, as well as a 1945 ranch house, 18 greenhouses, a boiler house, a modern garage, and the remnants of a barn and silo. (en)
- The Carlton D. Wall House is an elaborate Usonian home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1941. It is built as a series of hexagons radiating from a central space. (en)
- Fair Lane was Henry and Clara Ford's estate in Dearborn, Michigan. It was named after an area in County Cork where Ford's adoptive grandfather, Patrick Ahern, was born. The extensive 1300 acre estate along the River Rouge included a large limestone house, electrical power plant on the dammed river, boathouse, stables and gardens designed by Jens Jensen. The estate was eventually donated to the University of Michigan for a new Dearborn campus. (en)
- The David and Elizabeth Bell Boldman House was a basilica-style Greek Revival with a two-story center section flanked by single-story wings. The former site of the house is now vacant. (en)
- Rosedale Gardens was platted by the Shelden Land Company in the 1920s. The company modeled the development on Rosedale Park in Detroit. The first wood-sided houses were built in 1925. When the Great Depression hit, construction stopped for a time; the developer bricked over existing homes, and continued with brick construction when building resumed later in the 1930s. (en)
- The US 12 Bridges are two bridges carrying US 12 over Interstate 94 and the westbound I-94 ramp. The bridges were constructed in 1948-49 as part of the "Crosstown Expressway," which had been planned to carry traffic through Detroit since the 1920s. (en)
- The Waltz Road – Huron River Bridge was constructed in 1924 by the Wayne County Road Commission replacing a previous footbridge that had been erected over the Huron River to allow local children to attend school. The span consists of two identical seven-panel, camelback Pratt pony trusses with sidewalks attached to the outside of each truss. (en)
- This bridge was originally built in 1923–1924 for installation where Telegraph Road crossed a branch of the Rouge River just north of Warren Road. However, Telegraph Road was soon widened, and the bridge was removed and in 1933 installed at the Lilley Road crossing of the Lower Rouge River. (en)
- This barn was originally constructed by Ira Wilson in 1888; in 1919 the barn burned and he built the present structure on the foundations of the earlier barn. Wilson eventually established a million-dollar dairy, creamery, and trucking business, the Ira Wilson & Sons Dairy, and served for two terms as Wayne County sheriff. (en)
- The structure is significant as one of the most finely crafted houses in the township, as well as its association with one of the most important families in the area. (en)
- During World War II, the African-American population in Detroit ballooned to 300,000 residents, but housing covenants, overpriced rent, and other forms of discrimination restricted where they could live. Julius and William Schwartz platted the Annapolis Park suburb in Westland in 1953 specifically for African-Americans. (en)
- This irregularly massed Queen Anne features a broad porch and a circular turret. It is likely the design of the house was selected from a house plan book; a similar house plan can be found in Herbert C. Chivers' Artistic Homes. (en)
- In 1865, a group of Grosse Pointe residents founded the nondenominational Grosse Pointe Protestant Evangelical Church. In 1920, the congregation reorganized as a Presbyterian church. Truman Handy Newberry and his brother John donated nearly $300,000 to the congregation for a new church building, as a memorial to their parents John and Helen. (en)
- The 1927 Starkweather School is the only school from its time still extant in Plymouth, and the only school in Plymouth designed by Malcomson and Higginbotham, who designed numerous schools for the Detroit school district. (en)
- The Highland Heights-Stevens' Subdivision Historic District is a residential historic district of primarily single-family homes built in the early 20th-century. The houses are fine representation of the variety of American residential architecture in the years 1900–1930. Styles represented include foursquares, bungalows, and various revival styles. (en)
- The Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House was originally constructed c. 1840 in a Greek Revival style, but in subsequent years has been updated with Victorian elements. In 1989, the house was moved to its current location and placed on a new foundation. Restoration work was begun in 1994 and finished in 2002. (en)
- The Ford Valve Plant was the first of Henry Ford's "Village Industries" factories, designed to bring the economic advantages of industrial jobs to rural communities through the establishment of decentralized, non-disruptive manufacturing plants. (en)
- In 1872, John Eberts Jr. married Emma Lacey, and that same year the couple hired Raphael R. Thomas to build this house. (en)
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