Grosse Pointe, Michigan - Notable Places

Notable Places

  • The Village shopping district, Kercheval Road between Neff and Cadieux.
  • Neff Park, at the foot of University Place. A restricted-access park with pier and harbor on southern Lake St. Clair, pool, playgrounds, picnic areas, volleyball courts, and ice-skating in the winter.
  • George Elworthy Field. A city park with tennis courts, sports fields (including Little League Baseball diamonds), and playgrounds, within walking distance of the Village. Bounded by Neff Rd., St. Clair Ave., Waterloo St., and Charlevoix Street.
  • Ralph Harmon Booth House, 315 Washington Road. The largest house in the city; an architecturally significant English Revival mansion, designed by Marcus Burrows, in the midst of other historic homes. The former home of the President of Booth Newspapers, who served as U.S. Minister to Denmark and a key Detroit Institute of Arts philanthropist, Ralph Booth, the brother of George G. Booth.
  • Henry Tiffany Cole House, 394 Lakeland at Maumee. A large, distinctive Tudor mansion.
  • John M. Dwyer House, 372 Lakeland. A huge Georgian Colonial mansion, part of a row of mansions on lower Lakeland Ave.
  • Waterman House, 330 Lincoln. A stucco Georgian mansion built in 1911 at the corner of Maumee. Once the home of the inventor of the outboard boat motor. Features a chapel imported from England.
  • The Murray Sales House, 251 Lincoln. An Italian villa in white stucco off Jefferson Avenue built in 1917. Designed by the famed Louis Kamper, the architect of some downtown Detroit skyscrapers, among other buildings.
  • "Rosecroft," the B. Tobin House, at 266 Lakeland Ave. A unique 1912 Tudor designed by Albert Kahn.
  • Several blocks of mansions and architecturally significant houses (including some townhouses) on Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Rivard, University, and Lakeland, south of Kercheval.
  • Historic smaller homes, among the oldest in the city, along St. Clair Ave. and Notre Dame Ave., especially near Kercheval.
  • Several blocks of houses representing upscale residential architecture of the 1910-1930 period.
  • Dodge Place, a mid-century subdivision built on part of the former Horace and Anna Dodge mansion(s) site.
  • Fisher Road retail district (between St. Paul and Maumee), across from Grosse Pointe South High School.
  • Mack Avenue business district, along the length of Mack Avenue in Grosse Pointe, constituting the border with Detroit.
  • Maire Elementary School (Cadieux near Kercheval), the only one of the Grosse Pointe Public Schools within the small city.
  • Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church (Maumee near Neff), the only church within the one square mile city.

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