Detroit Places of Interest

Abolitionist Sites (all downtown):

Finney House Barn Site (Griswold & State)

Second Baptist Church (441 Monroe, Greektown)

William Lambert Home Site (E. Larned & St. Aubin)

William Webb House (Congress & St. Antoine, where Blue Cross Building is)

Abolitionist statue at Detroit River, behind Hart Plaza


Art Deco buildings (1st three are downtown):

Buhl Building (Griswold)

Guardian Building (Griswold)

Penobscot Building (Griswold)

Fischer Building (E. Grand Blvd.)


Beaux Art buildings:

Detroit Public Library (Woodward & Ferry)

Michigan Central Railroad Station

Wayne County Building (600 Randolph)


Bookstores:

John King Books (901 W. Lafayette)

Urban Network (5740 Grand River)


Museums (Detroit): Belle Isle Conservatory

Detroit Historical Museum

Detroit Institute of Arts

Historic Fort Wayne

Motown Museum

Museum of African History

Museum of Contemporary Art

Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum


Libraries:

Detroit Public Library

Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs


Museums (Dearborn):

Arab American National Museum

Henry Ford Estate

Greenfield Village (can pay for a tour Ford Rouge plant during week)

Heidelberg Project (Charlevoix between Mt. Elliot and Gratiot)

Hamtramck Disneyland (folk art)

Ossian Sweet Bungalow (2905 Garland) (still occupied)

Black Bottom/Ludwig Miles van der Rohe housing


Downtown Churches with Tiffany windows:

Christ Church (E. Jefferson)

First Presbyterian Church of Detroit (Woodward)

St. John’s Episcopal Church (Woodward)

(Also Tiffany windows at WSU’s George Beecher House & the David Whitney House--now a restaurant)


Plants:

AAM

Packard Plant

GM Poletown

Ford Rouge (Dearborn)

Motel T Ford Plant (Woodward, in Highland Park)

See Working Detroit


Urban Gardens: See [www.detroitagriculture.org]

Catherine Ferguson Academy

Detroit Black Community Food Security Network’s D-Town Farm

Earthworks Garden/Capuchin Soup Kitchen

Spirit of Hope