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Grosse Pointe, Michigan

Grosse Pointe is in Wayne County.

Well-Known Places in Grosse Pointe

The Village, Ralph Harmon Booth House, Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church.

About Grosse Pointe, Michigan

Grosse Pointe is an affluent lakefront city on Lake St. Clair about nine miles northeast of downtown Detroit, one of five adjoining communities collectively called "the Pointes." Its French name means "large point," a reference to the land jutting into the lake, and it became Detroit's original elite commuter suburb between 1910 and 1930. Streets of neo-Georgian, Tudor Revival and Colonial homes surround the Kercheval Avenue shopping district known as "The Village."

History of Grosse Pointe

• The name is French for "large point," referring to the point of land extending into Lake St. Clair.
• Incorporated as a village in 1880 and as a city in 1934.
• Became heavily populated between 1910 and 1930 as Detroit's first commuter suburb, changing from cottages, resorts, farms and widely spaced lakefront mansions into a dense residential enclave.

Landmarks and Places in Grosse Pointe

• The Village: the downtown retail district along Kercheval Avenue in the City of Grosse Pointe.
• Neff Park: a waterfront park with harbor access on Lake St. Clair in the City.
• Edsel and Eleanor Ford House at Gaukler Pointe in adjacent Grosse Pointe Shores, a 30,000-square-foot Cotswold/"storybook" style mansion designed by Albert Kahn with grounds by Jens Jensen, listed on the National Register in 1979 and a National Historic Landmark since 2016.

The Grosse Pointe Economy

• A high-income residential suburb that historically housed Detroit automobile executives and Gilded Age elite.
• "The Village" retail district along Kercheval Avenue is the shopping and cultural center serving all five Pointes.
• Home to University Liggett School, a long-established private K-12 institution.

Community Life in Grosse Pointe

• Setting and namesake of the 1997 film Grosse Pointe Blank, and the backdrop of The Virgin Suicides, from Grosse Pointe native Jeffrey Eugenides' novel and Sofia Coppola's 1999 film.
• Notable figures connected to Grosse Pointe include singer Anita Baker, author Jeffrey Eugenides, baseball star Miguel Cabrera and actress Julie Harris.
• Two historic commercial districts anchor Pointes social life: "The Village" on Kercheval in the City and "The Hill" district in neighboring Grosse Pointe Farms.

Local reference: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, time.com