Famous people's places / Grosse Pointe Shores
Edsel & Eleanor Ford House
The Albert Kahn–designed lakefront estate where Edsel Ford lived until his death in 1943, and where his son Henry Ford II grew up; now a museum.
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Famous people's places / Grosse Pointe Woods
Ferry Elementary School
A 1954 mid-century modern elementary school in Grosse Pointe Woods that actor J. K. Simmons attended as a boy before his family left Michigan in 1965.
Famous people's places / Grosse Pointe Woods
Closed – archive entryGrosse Pointe Country Day School
The Grosse Pointe girls' country day school actress Julie Harris attended, since absorbed through two mergers into today's University Liggett School.
Famous people's places / Grosse Pointe Woods
Grosse Pointe North High School
A public high school in Grosse Pointe Woods, opened in 1968, where White Stripes drummer Meg White graduated in the early 1990s.
Famous people's places / Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Closed – archive entryPunch and Judy Theatre
A Colonial Revival movie palace that opened in Grosse Pointe Farms in 1930 and hosted the first public screening of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's Within the Woods in 1979.
Famous people's places / Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Closed – archive entryRose Terrace
The Dodge family's lakefront mansion in Grosse Pointe Farms, built in two versions between 1912 and 1934 and demolished in 1976 despite its landmark status.
Famous people's places / Grosse Pointe Woods
University Liggett School
Grosse Pointe Woods private school tracing to an 1878 Detroit girls' school, formed through mergers into today's University Liggett School, attended by novelist Jeffrey Eugenides.
Famous people's places / Grosse Pointe Farms
Grosse Pointe Memorial Church
A Presbyterian church on Lake Shore Drive, founded in 1865 and rebuilt in the 1920s, where future Metropolitan Opera bass John Macurdy sang as a boy chorister.
Famous people's places / Grosse Pointe Farms
Closed – archive entryRoy D. Chapin House
The Lake Shore Road mansion architect John Russell Pope designed for Hudson Motor Car founder Roy D. Chapin, demolished in 1983 for condominiums.
Famous people's places / Grosse Pointe Farms
St. Paul on the Lake Parish House (Alexander Lewis House)
A lakefront house built around 1900 by Alexander Lewis that today serves as the parish house of St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church in Grosse Pointe Farms.
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