Famous people's places / Southfield
Boy and Bear (Southfield Public Library)
Marshall Fredericks' beloved 1954 bronze-and-limestone sculpture, moved from the demolished Northland Center mall to the Southfield Public Library in 2015.
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Famous people's places / Southfield
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
A large Catholic cemetery in Southfield, opened in 1928, where Cardinal Edmund Szoka and radio priest Charles Coughlin are both buried.
Famous people's places / Southfield
Lawrence Technological University
A Depression-era engineering school founded in Highland Park in 1932, later relocated to Southfield, where automotive engineer and DeLorean Motor Company founder John DeLorean studied on scholarship in the 1940s.
Famous people's places / Beverly Hills, MI
Acacia Park Cemetery
A Masonic cemetery in the Detroit suburb of Beverly Hills, open since 1924, where General Motors leaders Charles Erwin Wilson and William S. Knudsen are both buried.
Famous people's places / Southfield, MI
Berberian Woods Nature Preserve
A wooded city nature preserve in Southfield named for Detroit-born Metropolitan Opera bass Ara Berberian, who sang more than 300 performances at the Met over 18 years.
Famous people's places / Southfield
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
One of Detroit's oldest Jewish congregations, whose Percival Goodman-designed Southfield sanctuary is where Rabbi Morris Adler was shot in 1966.
Famous people's places / Detroit – West Side
Closed – archive entryHerman Gardens
Sprawling west-side Detroit public housing project, once the nation's largest, where future TV judge Greg Mathis grew up in the 1960s before it was demolished in the 2000s.
Famous people's places / Southfield
Southfield High School
A public high school in Southfield, opened in 1951, where baseball star Ted Simmons and actor Max Wright both studied before it became Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology.
Famous people's places / Lathrup Village
Closed – archive entrySouthfield-Lathrup High School
A Southfield Public Schools high school that closed in 2016 after music program alum House Shoes attended in the late 1980s and early 1990s; the campus was mostly rebuilt in the 2020s.
Famous people's places / Southfield
Westbound Records
The Detroit funk and soul label Armen Boladian founded in 1968, home to Funkadelic, the Ohio Players and the Detroit Emeralds, now run from a Southfield office.
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