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== Notable places == [[File:Grosse pointe lakefront.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Grosse Pointe waterfront along [[Lake St. Clair]] at Neff Park]] * * Neff Park, at the foot of University Place. A restricted-access park with pier and harbor on southern Lake St. Clair, pool, playgrounds, picnic areas, volleyball courts, and ice-skating in the winter.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=City of Grosse Pointe, MI |url=https://www.grossepointecity.org/departments/parks___recreation/index.php |access-date=2024-05-02 |website=www.grossepointecity.org |language=en}}</ref> * George Elworthy Field. A city park with tennis courts, pickleball courts, sports fields (including Little League Baseball diamonds), and playgrounds, within walking distance of the Village.<ref name=":1" /> Bounded by Neff Rd., St. Clair Ave., Waterloo St., and Charlevoix Street. * Ralph Harmon Booth House, 315 Washington Road. The largest house in the city; an architecturally significant English Revival mansion, designed by [[Marcus Burrows]], in the midst of other historic homes. The former home of the President of Booth Newspapers, who served as U.S. Minister to [[Denmark]] and a key [[Detroit Institute of Arts]] philanthropist, Ralph Booth, the brother of George G. Booth. * Henry Tiffany Cole House, 394 Lakeland at Maumee. A large, distinctive Tudor mansion. * John M. Dwyer House, 372 Lakeland. A huge Georgian Colonial mansion, part of a row of mansions on lower Lakeland Ave. * Waterman House, 330 Lincoln. A [[stucco]] Georgian mansion built in 1911 at the corner of Maumee. Features a chapel imported from England. * The Murray Sales House, 251 Lincoln. An Italian villa in white stucco off Jefferson Avenue built-in 1917. Designed by the famed [[Louis Kamper]], the architect of some downtown Detroit skyscrapers, among other buildings. * "Rosecroft", the B. Tobin House, at 266 Lakeland Ave. A unique 1912 Tudor designed by [[Albert Kahn (architect)|Albert Kahn]]. * "Woodley Green", the Benson Ford House, on the shore of Lake St. Clair. A notable 1934 Georgian/Regency designed by [[Hugh T. Keyes]]. * Several blocks of mansions and architecturally significant houses (including some townhouses) on Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Rivard, University, and Lakeland, south of Kercheval. * Historic smaller homes, among the oldest in the city, along St. Clair Ave. and Notre Dame Ave., especially near Kercheval. * Several blocks of houses representing the upscale residential architecture of the 1910β1930 period. * Dodge Place, a mid-century subdivision built on part of the former Horace and Anna Dodge mansion(s) site. * Fisher Road retail district (between St. Paul and Maumee), across from [[Grosse Pointe South High School]]. * Mack Avenue business district, along the length of Mack Avenue in Grosse Pointe, constituting the border with Detroit. * Maire Elementary School (Cadieux near Kercheval), the only one of the Grosse Pointe Public Schools within the city.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lewis E. Maire Elementary School |url=https://nationalblueribbonschools.ed.gov/awardwinners/winning/17mi114pu_lewis_e_maire_elementary_school.html/ |access-date=2024-05-02 |language=en-US}}</ref> * Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church (Maumee near Neff), the only church within the one square mile city.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church, Grosse Pointe, MI {{!}} UUA.org |url=http://www.gpuuc.org/ |access-date=2024-05-02 |website=www.gpuuc.org |language=en}}</ref>
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