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Places. A thousand stories.

Explore museums, parks, stages, and distinctive neighborhoods across Detroit and nearby cities. Each place comes with its own story and related events.

13 places found

Famous people's places / Bloomfield Hills

Academy of the Sacred Heart

A Catholic independent school in Bloomfield Hills founded in 1851, one of two schools actress Elizabeth Reaser attended growing up.

Famous people's places / Bloomfield Hills

Christ Church Cranbrook

George and Ellen Booth's Episcopal church on the Cranbrook estate, opened in 1928 and rich in Arts and Crafts stone, glass and metalwork.

Famous people's places / Bloomfield Hills

Cranbrook Academy of Art

Eliel Saarinen's graduate art academy and museum, one of America's most influential design schools, whose students included Charles and Ray Eames and Harry Bertoia.

Famous people's places / Bloomfield Hills

Cranbrook School

George Gough Booth's 1927 boarding school for boys, whose students included Mitt Romney, Daniel Ellsberg and novelist Edmund White.

Famous people's places / Bloomfield Hills

Cranbrook House and Gardens

Albert Kahn's Arts and Crafts manor for George and Ellen Booth, completed in 1908 and the seed of the entire Cranbrook Educational Community.

Famous people's places / Bloomfield Hills

Cranbrook Kingswood

Eliel Saarinen's 1931 masterpiece school for girls, championed by Ellen Scripps Booth, where actress Selma Blair studied in the 1980s.

Famous people's places / Bloomfield Hills, MI

Saarinen House

The Art Deco home and studio that architect Eliel Saarinen designed for his family on the Cranbrook campus in 1930, now a house museum.

Famous people's places / Bloomfield Hills

Temple Beth El

Tent-shaped Bloomfield Hills synagogue designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki for Detroit's oldest Reform Jewish congregation, completed in 1973.

Famous people's places / Bloomfield Hills, MI

Closed – archive entry

Bloomfield Hills Lahser High School

A Bloomfield Hills public high school that trained actress Jacqueline Kim before closing in 2013 when its district merged two high schools into one; the building now houses a middle school.

Famous people's places / Bloomfield Hills

Detroit Skating Club

A private figure skating club founded in 1946 that trained Olympic champions, now based in Bloomfield Hills.

Famous people's places / Bloomfield Hills

Oakland Hills Country Club

A private golf club in Bloomfield Hills that has hosted more major championships than almost any course in America, where Walter Hagen was the first head professional.

Famous people's places / Bloomfield Hills

Penske Corporation headquarters

The Telegraph Road office campus where racing champion turned businessman Roger Penske runs his global transportation and motorsports empire.

Famous people's places / Bloomfield Hills

The Roeper School

An independent school for gifted students, founded by Annemarie and George Roeper in 1941, with campuses in Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham.

An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.

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