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DETROIT / Places to explore / ¼
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.
21 places found
Famous people's places / Detroit – East Side
Denby High School
Detroit's east-side Art Deco high school from 1930, where self-help author Wayne Dyer and rapper 42 Dugg both studied.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Old Redford
Great Faith Ministries International
Detroit church led by Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, known for its television ministry, where actor Brandon T. Jackson performed as a boy and Donald Trump attended a 2016 service.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Prentis Building and DeRoy Auditorium
A paired business-school and auditorium building on Wayne State University's campus, designed by Minoru Yamasaki and opened in 1964.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
“Sixto Rodriguez: Laborer and Poet” mural
Mural of musician Sixto Rodriguez by artist Nicole Macdonald on the Iroquois Apartments in Midtown Detroit, near Wayne State University.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Wayne State University
Detroit's Midtown public research university, founded in 1868 as the Detroit Medical College, whose students and faculty include dozens of famous Detroiters.
Famous people's places / Wayne
Wayne Memorial High School
The main public high school of Wayne, Michigan, opened in 1953 and named for local World War II dead, where actor Johnny Pacar studied in the 1990s.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
WDET 101.9 FM
Detroit's public radio station, founded by the United Auto Workers in 1948 and owned by Wayne State University since 1952; poet John Sinclair and musician Don Was both hosted shows here.
Famous people's places / Wayne
Westlawn Cemetery
A Wayne, Michigan cemetery renamed in 1922 by Detroit pastors to serve the city's Black community during the Jim Crow era; Motown singer Jackie Wilson is entombed here.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
McGregor Memorial Conference Center
Minoru Yamasaki's luminous 1958 conference building at Wayne State, with a skylit atrium and reflecting pool; a National Historic Landmark.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Closed – archive entryBonstelle Theatre
A 1902 synagogue turned Broadway-style theatre on Woodward Avenue, home to Rabbi Leo M. Franklin's congregation and later Wayne State's theatre program, now an event space inside a new hotel.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Charles Lang Freer House
Industrialist Charles Lang Freer's 1892 Ferry Avenue home, once home to Whistler's Peacock Room, now a Wayne State institute open for occasional tours.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center
Wayne State University's jazz performance hall, opened in 2024 inside the former Hilberry Theatre and named for philanthropist Gretchen Valade, the 'Angel of Jazz' who saved the Detroit Jazz Festival.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Closed – archive entryHilberry Theatre
Wayne State University's graduate repertory theater in a converted 1917 church, where actor Jeffrey Tambor trained in the 1960s, closed in 2022 and reopened in 2024 as the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Maccabees Building
A 1927 Albert Kahn tower on Woodward Avenue that housed WXYZ-TV's studios into the 1950s, where Soupy Sales launched his Detroit television career; now Wayne State University offices.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Manoogian Hall
A Wayne State University building in Midtown Detroit, named for industrialist and philanthropist Alex Manoogian and home to the university's language and linguistics programs.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Statues of Detroit's French Pioneers
Four sandstone statues of Detroit's French-era founders, carved for the old City Hall and now standing on Wayne State University's campus.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Walter P. Reuther Library
Wayne State University's archive building, home to the largest labor archive in North America and named for UAW leader Walter Reuther.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Wayne State University Law School
Detroit's law school since 1927, whose graduates and faculty include Cora Brown, Bill Davidson, Dan Gilbert and Jocelyn Benson.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Wayne State University, Department of Chemistry
Wayne State's chemistry department, founded in 1917, where Carl Djerassi taught for seven years while helping invent the birth control pill.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Wayne State University School of Social Work
Wayne State's social work school, teaching in Detroit since 1935, where longtime Detroit City Council president Maryann Mahaffey taught for decades.
An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.
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