Famous people's places / Hamtramck
Closed – archive entryChevrolet Gear & Axle Plant
GM's Chevrolet forge and axle complex on the Detroit-Hamtramck border, where poet Philip Levine worked nights in the 1950s; closed 2012, demolished 2013.
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Famous people's places / Hamtramck
Closed – archive entryDodge Main
The Dodge brothers' Hamtramck automobile plant, closed in 1980 and demolished for GM's controversial Poletown assembly plant.
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Planet Ant Theatre
A Hamtramck arts collective founded in 1993 that grew into a black-box comedy and improv theater, with comedian Keegan-Michael Key among its early builders.
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Closed – archive entryDodge Brothers Plant (Hastings Street and Monroe Avenue)
The Dodge brothers' early machine-shop plant near downtown Detroit, where they built engines and transmissions for Olds and Ford before moving to Hamtramck in 1910.
Famous people's places / Hamtramck
Hamtramck High School
Hamtramck's public high school, whose earlier Wyandotte Street building produced congressman Lucien Nedzi, tennis coach Jean Hoxie's champion teams, and actress Gail Kobe before the school moved in 1970.
Famous people's places / Hamtramck
Hamtramck City Hall
Hamtramck's seat of government on Evaline Street, once St. Francis Hospital, where Amer Ghalib served as the first Yemeni American mayor of a U.S. city.
Famous people's places / Hamtramck
Jean François Hamtramck's Grave, Veterans Memorial Park
The final resting place of Colonel Jean François Hamtramck, the Revolutionary War officer the city is named for, reburied here in 1962 after four earlier burials across Detroit.
Famous people's places / Hamtramck
Hamtramck Stadium – Norman "Turkey" Stearnes Field
One of the last surviving Negro league ballparks, built in 1930 for the Detroit Stars, home turf for Turkey Stearnes and other stars, restored and renamed in his honor in 2020.
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Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic School
Metro Detroit's Ukrainian Catholic school, founded in Hamtramck in 1936 and now based in Warren, where future Ukrainian health minister Ulana Suprun studied in the 1970s.
Famous people's places / Hamtramck
Closed – archive entryLush Lounge
A Hamtramck bar whose Wednesday open mics carried on Detroit's hip-hop open-mic tradition after the closing of the Hip Hop Shop, with MC Marv Won among the regulars.
Famous people's places / Hamtramck
Zussman Park
A small city park across from Hamtramck's City Hall, named for hometown Medal of Honor recipient Raymond Zussman.
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