(WWJ) – From Detroit to the Upper Peninsula, and Lake Michigan to the Thumb, the state of Michigan has tons of history.
There are more than 2,000 properties across the state that are in the National Register of Historic Places, including 14 new ones.
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced Thursday 14 new locations – including six here in Metro Detroit – have been added to the register, which is the federal government’s official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects “deemed worthy of preservation for their historic significance.”
The National Register is a program of the National Park Service and is administered by the states. It has more than 96,000 listed properties across the country.
Among the newest places on that list is Detroit’s Luther Burbank Elementary School, which is “locally significant in the areas of education and architecture.”
The MEDC says the school “illustrates the important educational policies and trends in the city of Detroit in the 1930s and 1940s.”
“Burbank School building is an excellent example of Art Deco architecture and was constructed in phases between 1931 and 1949, reflecting the growth of the surrounding neighborhood and the city of Detroit into the 1940s.”
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Other Metro Detroit locations recently added to the list include:
• Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Michigan in Detroit
• Walbri Hall in Bloomfield Hills
• Elmer R. Webster School in Pontiac
• Elijah Bull House in Bloomfield Township
• Nathan Esek and Sarah Emergene Sutton House in Northfield Township
Among the most recognizable places added to the National Register is a popular tourist destination for Michiganders – Fishtown in Leland.
The Fishtown Historic District is significant as a Traditional Cultural Property with the themes of maritime history and commerce at the state level of significance.
“Fishtown is a rare surviving Great Lakes commercial fishing village that preserves the history and vernacular architecture of Michigan’s important and endangered commercial fishing heritage,” the MEDC said in a press release. “The district is more than individual buildings and structures, it is also an authentic cultural landscape. Its intimate character derives from the clustering of structures along both banks of its defining feature, the Leland River. The river in turn serves as a gateway to Lake Michigan fishing grounds and the Manitou Islands.
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The other Michigan locations added to the NRHP include:
• Sisters of the Order of Saint Dominic Motherhouse Complex in Grand Rapids
• Iron Mountain Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital in Iron Mountain
• Parkwyn Village in Kalamazoo
• Gibson Inc. Factory and Office Building in Kalamazoo
• Michigan Central Railroad Middleville Depot in Middleville
• Garfield School in Sault Ste. Marie
• Vicksburg Historic District in Vicksburg
A full list of places on the National Register of Historic Places – including more than 2,000 in Michigan – is available on the register’s website.