Historic Sites

Historic Sites Links

• Saint Marys Falls Ship Canal (Soo Locks), Sault Ste. Marie, November 13, 1966
  
• Ste. Claire (Steamer), Ecorse, July 6, 1992
  
• Cranbrook House Museum and Gardens, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Photographs, links to location map and Cranbrook's site
  
• Fort Wilkins state park, upper Michigan Fort Wilkins State Park, Copper Harbor Michigan, is an U.S. Army fort from the 1800s, offering reenactments, fishing on Lake Fanny Hooe, wildlife viewing, and camping.
  
• City of Milwaukee (Car Ferry)The Great Lakes Train Ferry City of Milwaukee, currently moored at the Ann Arbor Railroad Terminal in Elberta, Michigan is a steel-hulled vessel with a steel superstructure. National Register, listed December 14, 1990
  
• The Turner-Dodge House The Classical Revival, 1903 home is a National Historic Site whose families were instrumental in the development of the State Capitol and Michigan.
  
• Huron Lightship No. 103 Port Huron, December 20, 1989
  
• Fox Theatre Building Detroit, Michigan.The Detroit Fox is the largest and most exotic eclectic Hindu-Siamese-Byzantine theater of the golden age of the movie palace (1925-1930).
  
• General Motors Building Detroit, June 2, 1978
  
• Calendar of Events, Michigan Historical Center Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing and at its field sites in the Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula.
  
• Fair Lane Dearborn, MI. Originally encompassing over 2,000 acres on the Rouge River, Fair Lane was the residential estate of Henry Ford (1863-1947) and his wife Clara Bryant Ford (1866-1950).
  
• Alden B. Dow House and Studio Midland, June 29, 1989 The architecture of Alden B. Dow received national attention from his very early career through to his late period, partly because he was closely associated with Frank Lloyd Wright.
  
• Parke-Davis Research Laboratory Parke-Davis and Company of Detroit, Michigan, was the industrial leader in the development of pharmacological research in the United States.
  
• Calumet Historic District Calumet, Michigan. Houghton County. National Register, listed March 29, 1989
  
• Bay View Association Bay View, December 23, 1987 Bay View is one of the finest examples of two uniquely American community forms, the Methodist camp meeting and the independent Chautauqua.
  
• USS Silversides Muskegon, January 14, 1986
  
• Ford River Rouge Complex Dearborn, Michigan. The River Rouge Complex is one of the industrial wonders of the world, an integrated operations plant encompassing all basic steps in automobile production.
  
• The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village (The Edison Institute), Dearborn, December 21, 1981
  
• Highland Park Ford Plant The Highland Park Ford Plant is considered the birthplace of the moving assembly line.
  
• Michigan's Historic Sites Online Michigan Historical Center, MI Dept. of State.
  
• Mackinac Island The federal government created the Mackinac National Park in 1875, in response to the island's growing popularity as a summer resort and in order to preserve its historic and natural wonders. National Historic Landmark, listed October 9, 1960.
  
• Fort Michilimackinac Built by the French on the south shore of the Straits of Mackinac in approximately 1715.
  
• Fort Wilkins, Fort Wilkins State Park, Copper Harbor Michigan, at the tip of the Western Upper Peninsula.
  
• Cranbrook Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Oakland County. National Historic Landmark, listed June 29, 1989
  
• Pewabic Pottery Detroit, December 4, 1991
  
• Durant-Dort Carriage Company Office Flint, June 2, 1978
  
• Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum Whitefish Point, Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, open to the public, maritime museums, lighthouse museums and shipwrecks of Lake Superior.
  
• St. Ignace Mission Father Marquette burial site, Marquette Mission Park, Museum of Ojibwa Culture) Marquette Park, Marquette and State Streets. St. Ignace, Michigan. Mackinac County.National Historic Landmark, listed October 10, 1960 .
  
• Michigan History Photographs
  
• St. Clair River Tunnel under the St. Clair River between Port Huron and Sarnia, April 19, 1993
  
• Norton Mound Group Grand Rapids vicinity, December 21, 1965
  
• Herbert H. Dow House Midland, May 11, 1976
  
• Grand Hotel Mackinac Island, Michigan. Today the Grand Hotel is one of Michigan's major architectural attraction.
  
• Guardian Building Detroit, June 29, 1989
  
• Fayette Historic Townsite, Upper Peninsula of Michigan Fayette Historic Townsite, Garden,Michigan, in the 1800s was a bustling industrial community which manufactured charcoal pig iron for economical shipping to the Great Lakes steel companies.
  
• Fisher and New Center Buildings These two buildings are architecturally significant as a superbly designed complex exemplifying some of the finest craftsmanship and artistry displayed by any Art Deco style buildings constructed in the United States in the 1920s.
  
• Marshall, Michigan, Historic Landmark District Marshall, July 17, 1991
  
• Mackinac State Historic Parks History alive in Mackinaw City & Mackinac Island - Mackinac State Historic Parks.
  
• Historic City of Manistee, Michigan Historic Downtown Manistee, Michigan, on the National Historic Register, Port with a River running through it! A 1.5 mile riverwalk, Trolley Tours, Historic pier, catwalk and lighthouse, Bandshell on the River.
  
• Mann House, Concord
  
• Quincy Mining Company Historic District Hancock vicinity, March 28, 1989
  
• Ernest Hemingway Cottage It was here that Ernest Hemingway spent most of his summers until the age of 21, and where he learned to hunt, fish and to first write serious fiction.
  
• Michigan State Capitol Lansing, October 5, 1992
  
• Lincoln Motor Company Plant Detroit, June 2, 1978