Museums & art
Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
American ingenuity on a grand scale: cars, locomotives, aviation, and objects that tell stories of social change.
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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.
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Museums & art
Greenfield Village
Historic homes, workshops, and living trades create an outdoor world of American history in Dearborn.
Museums & art
Arab American National Museum
Migration, creativity, and everyday life tell the Arab American story in the heart of Dearborn.
Architecture & icons / Detroit – Delray
Closed – archive entryHungarian Reformed Church (Delray)
Delray's largest Hungarian Reformed church, organized in 1941; the congregation moved to Allen Park in 1965 and the building burned in 2022.
Famous people's places / Dearborn Heights
Crestwood High School
A Dearborn Heights public high school where actor Garrett Clayton began acting in the drama club in the 2000s.
Famous people's places / Dearborn
Dearborn High School
One of Dearborn's oldest public high schools, where actor George Peppard graduated in 1946.
Famous people's places / Dearborn
Fair Lane
Henry and Clara Ford's 1915 Rouge River estate in Dearborn, where Henry lived until his 1947 death; the grounds are open, the mansion is closed for restoration.
Famous people's places / Dearborn
Ford River Rouge Complex
Henry Ford's giant 1917 integrated factory on the Rouge River, designed largely by Albert Kahn and sketched by Diego Rivera in 1932; still a working Ford plant, open for public tours.
Famous people's places / Dearborn
Closed – archive entryFord World Headquarters (the Glass House)
Ford's 1956 glass-walled Dearborn headquarters, nicknamed the Glass House, vacated in 2025 and set for demolition around 2027.
Famous people's places / Dearborn
Fordson High School
Dearborn's 1928 Collegiate Gothic high school, named for Henry and Edsel Ford, where actor Chad Everett studied in the 1950s; still an active school.
Famous people's places / Dearborn
Henry Ford College
A Dearborn community college founded in 1938 as Fordson Junior College, renamed for Henry Ford in 1952, where actor Tom Skerritt studied after his Air Force service.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Warrendale
Warrendale
A residential Detroit neighborhood on the far west side, bordered by Dearborn, where rapper Tee Grizzley grew up with his grandmother.
Famous people's places / Dearborn
Northview Cemetery
Dearborn's largest cemetery, in use since 1883, where Breakfast at Tiffany's and A-Team star George Peppard is buried with his parents.
Famous people's places / Dearborn – South End
ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services)
The country's largest Arab American nonprofit, founded in 1971 in a Dearborn storefront and still headquartered on Saulino Court, where Ismael Ahmed helped build it into a national model.
Famous people's places / Dearborn
The Arab American News
A bilingual Arabic-English weekly founded by Osama Siblani in 1984, still publishing from Dearborn and now the oldest and largest Arab American newspaper in the country.
Famous people's places / Dearborn – Ford Rouge Complex
Battle of the Overpass site, Ford Rouge Gate 4
The pedestrian overpass at Gate 4 of Ford's River Rouge plant where company guards beat UAW organizers Walter Reuther and Richard Frankensteen in 1937, a turning point for the American labor movement.
Famous people's places / Dearborn
Divine Child High School
A Dearborn Catholic co-ed high school, open since 1958, where future NFL star Aidan Hutchinson played multiple sports.
Famous people's places / Dearborn
Islamic Center of America
North America's largest mosque, on Ford Road in Dearborn, built by the Shia congregation Imam Mohamad Jawad Chirri founded and later led for years by Imam Hassan al-Qazwini.
Famous people's places / Detroit – West Side
Closed – archive entryIslamic Center of Detroit (Joy Road Mosque)
Michigan's first purpose-built mosque, opened on Detroit's Joy Road in 1963 by Imam Mohamad Jawad Chirri; the congregation moved to Dearborn in 2005, and the building today houses the Az-Zahra Center.
Famous people's places / Dearborn Heights
Islamic Institute of America
Dearborn Heights mosque and community organization Imam Hassan al-Qazwini founded in 2015 after leaving the Islamic Center of America, now building a new campus meant to be one of North America's largest mosques.
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