Grosse Pointe Academy

Grosse Pointe Academy is a Michigan historical marker in Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne County, dedicated 1977.

Wayne County · dedicated 1977 · 171 Lake Shore Drive, Grosse Pointe Farms

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Owned by the Religious of the Sacred Heart from 1867 to 1969, this site is now an independent school. The narrow shape of the property reflects its original use as a French “ribbon farm” extending inland from Lake St. Clair. Situated at the Grosse Pointe Academy are an 1868 structure initially used as a public school for village children; the present academy building erected in 1929; and a place of worship modeled after a French convent chapel. Each of these edifices is still in use.

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