Some sort of Tudor/Romanesque villa, blinded and frozen.

Cloak Of Feathers (b.1929)
Grosse Pointe Park, Wayne County Michigan.

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A brick Tudor style house with a 2nd story bay window

Time Stand Still (b.1926)
Grosse Pointe Park, Wayne County Michigan.

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A brick colonial style house designed by Charles C. Goddeeris. Charles was J.C.'s brother-in-law. A crescent shaped shadow drapes the bottom of the house like a cozy blanket in the snow.

J.C. Cornillie House (b.1926)
Grosse Pointe Park, Wayne County Michigan.

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A sort of hybrid Georgian/Tudor Revival. Symmetrical with the sun hitting its triangular peaks.

Village Of The Sun (b.1926)
Grosse Pointe Park, Wayne County Michigan.

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The sun casting shadows from nearby trees onto a large Tudor style house.

Mount Napoleon (b.1925)
Grosse Pointe Park, Wayne County Michigan.

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A horrible picture of a craftsman style bungalow. Trees and grain obscure the view

Maw & Void (b.1924)
Grosse Pointe, Wayne County Michigan.

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The sun setting behind a house made of stone and brick. Washington Road stretches down to Rivard in the distance towards the sunset.

Charles Claude Moran (b.1935)
Grosse Pointe, Wayne County Michigan.

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A well lit opulent brick home on a dark January evening.

Jean Baptiste Rivard (b.1901)
Grosse Pointe, Wayne County Michigan.

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A Tudor style house glowing in the early evening sun.

Grand Marais (b.1929)
Grosse Pointe, Wayne County Michigan.

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9 de Enero de 1955 hace exactamente 71 nacia en #GrossePointe, #Míchigan #JonathanKimbleSimmons más conocido como #JKSimmons.

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Author Gail Kuhnlein Book Reading and Signing — going fast!

On Sat morning at 10:30am I’ll be at Coreander’s Children’s Bookshoppe reading from our #newpicturebook Into the Thicket
Tickets (free/only kids need them) are going fast @eventbrite.bsky.social says!

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Haunted Garage Productions 18th season Oct 3rd!!
19520 Mack Ave. Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan.
Open weekends in October thru October 26th.
Fridays and Saturdays 6pm - 9:30pm, Sundays 6pm - 9pm
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This Saturday, from 12-2pm at the corner of St. Clair and Kercheval in Grosse Pointe, #LoveWins. Come celebrate with us at this family-friendly #Pride event from WeGP #indivisible

We will be raffling off a #pride themed @Pewabic.bsky.social tile to one lucky winner, it could be you!

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This Saturday, from 12-2pm at the corner of St. Clair and Kercheval in Grosse Pointe, #LoveWins. Come celebrate with us at this family-friendly #Pride event from WeGP #indivisible

We will be raffling off a #pride themed @Pewabic.bsky.social tile to one lucky winner, it could be you!

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2 on GPPSS board push back on 'Special People Day' instead of Mother's, Father's Day A Michigan school district's decision to have kindergartners make a special gift for a person, rather than a parent, has stirred controversy in Wayne County this month. Officials in the Grosse Pointe Public School System say the move was in response to kindergarten pupils whose mothers passed away recently. "To be compassionate and caring of the students, our Kindergarten teachers chose to make handcrafted gifts for Special People Day in lieu of school crafts created for Mothers or Fathers Day," said Principal Jodie Randazzo at Ferry Elementary in an email to The Detroit News. "By calling it 'special people' all our students could participate without feeling excluded, and we could support them," Randazzo said. Pupils made suncatchers and a canvas painting of a flower for their special person. The crafts will be sent home May 23. Ferry did not receive any negative feedback from kindergarten parents when the change was announced to families, Randazzo said. Two board members have pushed back against the move, saying it is an attack on traditional families and erases tradition. Virginia "Ginny" Jeup, a member of the Grosse Pointe Public Schools Board of Education, posted Friday on social media that schools can be supportive of students without "erasing" traditional Mother’s Day and Father’s Day celebrations. Her post included a letter the school's kindergarten teachers sent to parents about their planned change. "We’re excited to announce that our kindergarten classes will be celebrating Special People Day!" the letter said, according to the board member. "In place of traditional Mother’s Day or Father’s Day projects, each child will create a few handcrafted gifts to give to 'special people' in their life —someone who makes them feel loved, supported, and celebrated. This could be a grandparent, aunt or uncle, older sibling, family friend, or anyone else your child holds dear." The letter said pupils will bring the gifts they made home with them on May 23. "Please encourage your child to think about the special people they’d like to honor," it said. "These gifts are their way of saying 'thank you' and 'I love you' to someone important in their world." Jeup said she understands the change intends to include children who have lost one or both parents. "One of the students recently lost their mother, and my heart aches for that child and family," she wrote in her post. "That kind of grief is deep, and schools should absolutely support kids facing loss with compassion and care." However, she said schools can be supportive without erasing tradition. "It’s a delicate balance," her post said. "We want every child to feel safe and included, but inclusion shouldn't come at the cost of erasing what’s special for others." She said she's heard complaints from several parents about the change. "The attacks on family continue in our district," Terry Collins, a past member of the board, wrote a post in a private Facebook group called Common Sense for GP Schools. "To be clear, the messaging here is not, please choose someone if you don't have a mom figure in your life. The message is choose someone other than mom or dad." He urged parents to push back against the event. Jeup proposed a compromise in her post: adding a celebration rather than replacing the traditional Mother's Day and Father's Day activities. "There’s room for both," Jeup said. "If some families would benefit from celebrating a 'Special Person,' then let’s make space for that too. But we shouldn’t feel like we have to choose between kindness and tradition. We can honor both." Board president Colleen Worden said the district supports its teachers in their efforts to create inclusive and thoughtful learning environments. "We trust our educators to thoughtfully incorporate special events into their curriculum in ways that best reflect the needs of their classroom communities. These decisions are made at the school or classroom level, and the Board of Education does not oversee or micromanage the specific details of individual lesson plans or activities," Worden said. "I applaud our teachers’ efforts to ensure that every student feels safe, valued, and included in the classroom." Grosse Pointe Public Schools, one of Wayne County's most affluent school districts, has faced controversy. In February, a 74-page report into complaints against then-school board member Ahmed Ismail was released and said he dismissed administrators' concerns over a fired high school coach accused of bloodying a player with a bat, yelling at a child with a hearing issue, and playing an athlete with a known concussion. Last November, a four-person progressive slate prevailed in a contentious Grosse Pointe schools board of education race, upending a conservative board majority. In June, four top administrators at Grosse Pointe North High School resigned after a tumultuous school year in the district and on the school board. This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: 2 on GPPSS board push back on 'Special People Day' instead of Mother's, Father's Day

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'Grosse Pointe Garden Society': Who Got Killed & Who Killed the Dog Revealed We finally get to the root (see what I did there) of the season with Grosse Pointe Garden Society. A couple of lingering questions have been answered in the season's latest episode and it feels like a...

We finally uncover the secrets behind Grosse Pointe Garden Society! Who was killed, and what happened to the darling dog? Find out all the details here: #GrossePointe #GrossePointeGardenSociety #TVSky

...what a great pic... #LakeStClair is a great sail...was riding with a resident, so, wasn't asked to produce a passport before entering #GrossePointe 🤔🤨

Spring has Sprung in
#GrossePointe it all happened in 1 day
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Catching up on #GrossePointe and I want to like it more than I actually do. It falls into the trap of mystery shows that I hate: they're more invested in deepening the mystery than moving towards solving anything.

HOWEVER...

Whitley Gilbert as Michaela Pratt's mom is some exquisite casting.

Grosse Pointe viewers intrigued by NBC’s 'Grosse Pointe Garden Society' A new NBC dramedy has piqued the curiosity of folks in Grosse Pointe, whose Detroit-adjacent community is the setting of a fictional murder mystery. “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” depicts four garden club members, Birdie (Melissa Fumero), Catherine (Aja Naomi King), Brett (Ben Rappaport), and Alice (AnnaSophia Robb), at the center of the murder. The show airs at 10 p.m. Sundays on NBC and streams on Peacock the next day. Reactions to the show were mixed. “The way the women stick together, the garden club sticks together, that is a very Grosse Pointe thing because people are very loyal to each other,” says Colleen Fitzgerald, 56, who has lived in Grosse Pointe Farms since 2004 with her son Jimmy, 23, a recent Michigan State University graduate. “If you have a friend group, whether it's soccer moms or choir moms or baseball moms, it is a group that really sticks together. I mean, we do tend to be very cliquey,” she said. Jimmy says of the Atlanta-shot show, “With the scenes that you can vaguely see that they’re going for the Village but it’s not the Village — but they obviously went to Grosse Pointe and they know Grosse Pointe and they’re trying to recreate that — that’s just going to feel not real to me because I grew up here and I know all the locations that they’re trying to replicate.”  Teddy Sweeney, 24, grew up in Grosse Pointe Farms, graduated from the University of Michigan, and currently lives in Detroit, but still comes to Grosse Pointe regularly. “I love the little callouts,” Sweeney said. A line about the Junior League, a nonprofit group of women volunteers, made him laugh. “The thing that kept sticking out to me was how there's a path, (and) there's an expectation,” says Sweeney, as he sees on the show a mother who is determined to have her high schooler get accepted to the University of Michigan. The parent doesn’t think her son should be penalized for plagiarizing an assignment.  Dominic Bennett thinks “the show reinforces that there's really two different Grosse Pointes.” He says he and his spouse, Marisa, “snuck in here 12 years ago at the bottom of the real estate market, and we're house-poor.” Then there’s “the wealthy Grosse Pointe … which I think is being depicted here (on the show),” Dominic says.  You may hear a local refer to Grosse Pointe as “the bubble.” Teddy Sweeney sheds light on this. “I think the bubble is from the fact that we, especially as kids (who) grow up in this environment, we're not thinking about anything else except for, what am I going to do today, and what are my parents telling me to do today, basically.” Sweeney adds, “You don't have to worry about the fact that, like, two, three miles away are abandoned homes and entire blocks of blight and real-world problems that people have to deal with.” While Sweeney is glad to see main characters of color on “Grosse Pointe Garden Society,” he keeps in mind real acts of racism that have happened in the community, including teenagers using racial slurs and a Grosse Pointe Park resident displaying a KKK flag. Some other problems pale in comparison to such racism and hatred, but alcohol culture and infidelity — the latter being more overt on TV than it is on the surface in the community was also mentioned. Several locals who watched “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” feel that the series could have been set in any affluent area of the country. They mention that B-roll or establishing shots of the real Grosse Pointe (especially Lakeshore Drive) would make a difference.  “I want Grosse Pointe to be more of a character in the show,” says Jimmy Fitzgerald.  Of course, “Grosse Pointe” is only half of the show’s title. The garden society is a social circle for all four main characters, and it’s where the mysterious murder unfolds. The real nonprofit Grosse Pointe Garden Center is not commenting publicly on “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” at this time, but its members often shop at Allemon’s Landscape Center on Mack Avenue. Joe Allemon’s grandfather acquired the land in 1910 and started the business in 1929. Five generations of Allemons’ names are painted on the side of the building. Joe Allemon has not watched the series yet, but he hears about “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” from customers and has spotted the show’s “Mack Avenue Garden Center” in a clip. “That was neat to see that,” Joe says from behind the register, noting the store’s 115-year history. “And we’re just a little pickle-barrel operation anyways, so it’s kind of a nice fit, I thought.”  He describes customers affiliated with the real garden center as “knowledgeable,” “intelligent,” welcoming, giving and “no pun intended, but very down to earth.” “This is my 52nd year, and they will tell me things that I haven't learned, that I don't know,”  Joe says. An example? One gardener won’t kill her weeds with chemicals. She smothers them, instead, with materials including newspaper, cardboard, mulch and water. Employee Sam Carroll has worked at Allemon’s for five months and currently lives in Detroit. Carroll chatted while adjusting a yellow sign outside that counted down to spring. He recalls this past autumn when local gardeners needed mums. “If the colors don't quite match up between one and the other, then they're not gonna buy it, because they need to have two on each side, and it's got to be even,” he said. “It is, in a weird way, almost like a symmetrical level of thinking. It's like everything has to be just so, just right. Like a postcard.” While exclusive garden clubs do exist, the Grosse Pointe Garden Center is open to anyone and costs $20 to join. The center maintains multiple gardens located at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial, and distinguished speakers share their gardening knowledge at member events. Some members of the Grosse Pointe Garden Center are also involved in gardening projects in Detroit, like the Oudolf Garden on Belle Isle. And yes, there is a competition each year between eight local garden clubs; this takes place in the Trial Gardens created by the late Eleanor Roche, landscape architect. The gardening world of Michigan is huge, with numerous gardening organizations in Grosse Pointe alone. Some members of the Grosse Pointe Garden Center also complete the rigorous training of the MSU Extension Master Gardener Program.  One thing the real Grosse Pointe has in common with the new TV series is the wonder of a garden bringing so many different folks together. Marisa Bennett grew up in Sterling Heights and says, “I would have thought everybody was this preppy, belonged-to-some-sort-of-private-club person. I never would have thought that there were people like us that lived in this community.” Both she and Dominic appreciate the neighborliness they have found in Grosse Pointe. “We're a very multigenerational community and their cast isn't reflective of that yet,” Marisa says. “You don't have the old person who just knows everything that's going on, (who) has the opinion.”  Though differences in the appearance of fictional Grosse Pointe and real Grosse Pointe (like the height of buildings or newness in the scenery) stand out to her, Marisa plans to watch the next episode of “Grosse Pointe Garden Society.” Dominic thinks the third episode is the best yet. He bluntly states, “This show is like bad beer. The more you have, the better they get.”  Multiple moments from the third episode elicit laughs from the Fitzgeralds. Colleen finds the show “very well-written,” and Jimmy compliments the acting.  Colleen concludes, “I think that I likely wouldn’t be watching it if it wasn’t called ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society.’ That drew me in. But I liked it as a show, regardless of the name.” She never missed an episode of “Desperate Housewives” and liked learning that co-creator Jenna Bans had also written for that show.  There’s more than meets the eye in an intricate garden, and Grosse Pointe has its layers, too. 'Grosse Pointe Garden Society' 10 p.m. Sundays on NBC, streams the next day on Peacock This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: Grosse Pointe viewers intrigued by NBC’s 'Grosse Pointe Garden Society'

A new NBC dramedy has piqued the curiosity of folks in Grosse Pointe, whose Detroit-adjacent community is the setting of a fictional murder mystery.


“Grosse Pointe Garden Society” depicts four garden club members, Birdie (Melissa Fumero), Catherine (Aja Naomi… #GrossePointe #GardenSociety #NBC

Grosse Pointe teen pleads guilty in fatal high-speed crash A Grosse Pointe teen has pleaded guilty in a November 2023 high-speed crash that killed his passenger. The teen, whose name was withheld by prosecutors because of his age, pleaded guilty Friday to manslaughter with a motor vehicle, Wayne County…

A Grosse Pointe teen has pleaded guilty in a November 2023 high-speed crash that killed his passenger.


The teen, whose name was withheld by prosecutors because of his age, pleaded guilty Friday to manslaughter with a motor vehicle, Wayne County Prosecutor… #GrossePointe #TeenCrime #Manslaughter

Bike Tech (o. mid-1980's) repair shop and retail store. Grosse Pointe Farms, MI. The turquoise tile siding grabbed my attention when I passed it last year.

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Grosse Pointe school official dismissed concerns over fired coach, report says A Grosse Pointe school board member dismissed administrators' concerns over a fired high school coach accused of bloodying a player with a bat, yelling at a child with a hearing issue and playing an athlete with a known concussion, according to an…

A Grosse Pointe school board member dismissed administrators' concerns over a fired high school coach accused of bloodying a player with a bat, yelling at a child with a hearing issue and playing an athlete with a known concussion, according to an independent… #GrossePointe #SchoolBoard #Education

Grosse Pointe school board votes to release full report into retaliation complaint A full report detailing the investigation into allegations of retaliation by a former Grosse Pointe school board trustee against two female administrators who filed a complaint against him will be released to the public after the board voted Monday to…

A full report detailing the investigation into allegations of retaliation by a former Grosse Pointe school board trustee against two female administrators who filed a complaint against him will be released to the public after the board voted Monday to… #GrossePointe #SchoolBoard #Retaliation

Frozen Lake St Clair
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From a big family, though not the biggest in my Irish catholic neighborhood. #GrossePointe Sister turns 69 today and reminds us that we live a privileged life. She’s right, older sisters often are. I have to remind myself whenever I spiral in a ‘woe is me’ mode!

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Detroit — Criminal charges will not be filed against the mother of a 17-year-old Grosse Pointe resident who allegedly killed the passenger in his car last fall after police say he drove recklessly and slammed into a utility pole and tree, Wayne County… #JusticeForFlynn #GrossePointe #MurderCharges