The Kresge Foundation

The Kresge Foundation is a Michigan historical marker in Troy, Oakland County, dedicated 1974.

3215 West Big Beaver Road, Troy

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Sebastian Spering Kresge established this foundation in 1924 on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the company he had organized in Detroit. The foundation’s sole donor, he remained chairman of the board until retiring in 1966, shortly before his death. Grants of over $175 million in its first fifty years have aided established institutions to build facilities for teaching, research, healing, and the arts. In 1984 the foundation moved to this site.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1897 · Southern Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1908 · Rochester, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1927 · Sectional paved road map (Continues) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1936 · Birmingham, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1945 · Birmingham, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Sectional paved road map (Continues), 1927, covering the location of The Kresge Foundation, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Sectional paved road map (Continues), 1927, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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