Eastern Liggett School / Detroit Waldorf School

Albert Kahn designed this school in the Arts and Crafts style in 1913. It opened in 1914 as Eastern Liggett, a college preparatory school for girls. Kahn oversaw the addition of an auditorium, gymnasium and new classrooms in 1923, and the front gate installation in 1928. Many of Liggett’s early students were the daughters of business owners and industry executives from the surrounding Indian Village neighborhood. In 1964, Liggett School moved to Grosse Pointe. Detroit Waldorf School In 1966, the Waldorf School Association of Michigan reopened this building as Michigan’s first Waldorf School, using an educational approach created by Rudolf Steiner in Germany in 1919. It was one of Detroit’s first racially integrated private schools. In 1968, the school became a founding member of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America. The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 as part of the Indian Village Historic District.