Motor Cities Heritage

1. The Motor City & Arsenal of Democracy

When many people think of Detroit, they think of cars. That heritage is celebrated throughout southeast and mid-Michigan at sites that are part of the National Park Service designated MotorCities National Heritage Area, such as:

- - Henry Ford Museum (Dearborn)
  - Greenfield Village (Dearborn)
  - Automotive Hall of Fame (Dearborn)
  - Ford River Rouge Factory Tour (Dearborn)
  - Fair Lane – Home of Clara and Henry Ford (Dearborn)
  - Ford Piquette Avenue Plant
  - Cadillac Place – The General Motors Building
  - Conner Creek Industrial Area
  - Edsel & Eleanor Ford House (Grosse Pointe Shores)
  - General Motors Heritage Center (Sterling Heights)

2. Motown & Hitsville U.S.A.

- - Motown Museum – Hitsville U.S.A.
  - Fox Theatre
  - The Majestic Theatre
  - The Fillmore Detroit
  - Saint Andrew’s Hall
  - Harpos Concert Theatre
  - Detroit Opera House
  - Cliff Bell’s Jazz Club
  - Third Man Records
  - The Old Miami

3. The Renaissance City

- - Detroit Institute of Arts
  - Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History
  - Detroit Historical Museum
  - Cranbrook (Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook House & Gardens, and Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills)
  - Arab American National Museum (Dearborn)
  - Outdoor Art – The Heidelberg Project
  - Hellenic Museum of Michigan
  - African Bead Museum
  - Museum Of Contemporary Art Detroit
  - Tuskegee Airmen National Museum

4. The Paris of the Midwest

- - GM Renaissance Center
  - Guardian Building
  - One Detroit Center
  - Penobscot Building
  - Book Tower
  - Detroit Masonic Temple
  - Detroit Public Library
  - David Whitney Building
  - Detroit Athletic Club
  - Maccabees Building

5. America’s Comeback City

- - Greektown
    1. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral
    2. Old St. Mary’s Catholic Church
    3. The Greek restaurant
    4. Pegasus Taverna
  - Eastern Market
    1. Eastern Market
    2. Historic Trinity Lutheran Church
    3. Dequinde Cut Greenway (North End)
    4. Art Park Eastern Market
  - Corktown
    1. Michigan Central Station
    2. Slows Bar BQ
    3. ima (Japanese noodles)
    4. The Brooklyn Street Local (vegan options)
  - Rivertown-Warehouse District
    1. William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor
    2. West Detroit RiverWalk & Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre
    3. Detroit Lighthouse Depot & Mt. Elliott Park
    4. Dequindre Cut Greenway (South End)
  - Wayne State University Historic District
    1. Maccabees Building
    2. Main Detroit Public Library
    3. Detroit Historical Museum
    4. Fountain Court
  - Cultural Center Historic District
    1. Detroit Institute of Arts
    2. Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
    3. Michigan Science Center
    4. Hellenic Museum of Michigan
  - Lafayette Park
    1. St. Joseph Shrine
    2. Lafayette Central Park & Lafayette Plaisance Park
    3. Urban Soul Restaurant
    4. Dequindre Cut Greenway
  - Mexicantown
    1. Xochimilco Restaurant
    2. Los Galanes Mexican Restaurant
    3. Mexicantown Restaurant
    4. Evie’s Tamales
  - Indian Village
    1. Iroquois Avenue Christian Lutheran Church (ELCA)
    2. Conventional Missionary Baptist Church
    3. Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church
    4. Centennial Garden
  - Gold Coast
    1. Erma Henderson Marina & Park
    2. The Whittier
    3. Gabriel Richard Park & Detroit RiverWalk (East End)
    4. Owen Park

6. City of Trees

- - Hart Plaza
    1. Monument to Joe Louis “The Fist”
    2. Michigan Labor Legacy Monument
    3. Ford Motor Company Historical Marker
    4. Landing of Cadillac Historical Marker
    5. Horace E. Dodge Fountain
  - Belle Isle State Park
    1. Dossin Great Lakes Museum
    2. Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory
    3. Belle Isle Aquarium
    4. Belle Isle Boat House (abandoned)
    5. Belle Isle Children’s Zoo (abandoned)
  - William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor – Milliken State Park Lighthouse
  - The Spirit of Detroit at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
  - Campus Martius Park – Michigan Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument & Woodward Fountain
  - Detroit Riverfront – International Memorial to the Underground Railroad & Detroit Princess Riverboat
  - Dequindre Cut – Greenway
  - Grand Circus
  - The BELT (art murals alley)
  - Detroit Zoo (Royal Oak)

7. The D

- - Eastern Market (Saturdays)
  - American Coney Island
  - Lafayette Coney Island
  - Buddy’s Pizza
  - The Whitney
  - The Majestic Café
  - Cafe D’Mongos Speakeasy
  - Taqueria El Rey
  - Andiamo Detroit Riverfront
  - Union Woodshop

8. Historic Places

- - Historic Fort Wayne
  - Michigan Central Station (under restoration)
  - Michigan Theater Building
  - Boston Edison Historic District
  - Fisher Mansion
  - Grand Army of the Republic Building
  - International Memorial to the Underground Railroad
  - Ste. Anne de Detroit
  - Moross House
  - Ossian H. Sweet House

9. Abandoned Places

- - Michigan Theatre
  - United Artists Theatre
  - Vanity Ballroom
  - American Motors Corporation Headquarters
  - Packard Automotive Plant
  - Fisher Body Plant 21
  - Old Wayne County Building
  - Belle Isle Boat House & Belle Isle Children’s Zoo
  - Saint Agnes Catholic Church & Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church
  - Phoenix Mill (Northville)

10. Suburban Wayne County

- - Highland Park Ford Plant – Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.
  - Northville Mill Race Village (Northville)
  - Greenmead Historical Park (Livonia)
  - Plymouth Historical Museum (Plymouth)
  - Nankin Mills Interpretive Center (Westland)
  - Cherry Hill Village (Canton)
  - Battle of Brownstown (Rockwood)
  - Roesink Stadium (Hamtramck) (one of only 12 remaining Negro league baseball stadiums)
  - Hull’s Trace North Huron River Corduroy Segment (Brownstown Charter Township)
  - Joseph Campau Historic District (Hamtramck)