History and Heritage in Oak Park, MI

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Cranbrook Art Museum is a contemporary art museum located at the heart of Cranbrook Educational Community, one ...

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The seven Fisher brothers built the Fisher Building as a home for Fisher and Company, which had pioneered...

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In 1928, the leaders of the Detroit Historical Society founded the Detroit Historical Museum and for the next 2...

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To be recognized as the institution of choice for exploring and presenting African American history and culture...

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The museum offers ten historic buildings and a charming village green. Visitors can tour through the care...

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The museum exhibits trace the roots of Motown"s remarkable story and chronicle its impact on 20th century...

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On May 3, 1918, the Royal Oak Tribune boasted that, "architecturally and artistically," the new Methodist Episcopal...

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This center, which opened in 1984, exists as the country's first freestanding facility devoted to remembering the H...

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The Arab American National Museum (AANM) is the first and only museum in the United States devoted to Arab Amer...

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In 1839 a group of black Detroit citizens formed the Colored Methodist Society, which became the core of the Bethel A...

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Whether you know of Eliel Saarinen's work from art and architecture classes or by virtue of his son Eero's furnitur...

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During the 1950s, as Oakland County's population soared, the corner of Eight Mile Road and Woodward Avenue became the...

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In 1890, Fred A. Baker, an attorney and former state legislator, purchased 320 acres of land in Royal Oak Township. H...

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At this intersection stood the home in which Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863. The farm house was owned by Ford's...

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In the summer of 1918, President Woodrow Wilson, at the urging of Britain and France, sent an infantry regiment to no...

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