Photograph of Grosse Pointe Public Library Central Branch — Photograph by Arbitrarily0, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Grosse Pointe Central Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

“The Grosse Pointe Public Library Central Branch, located at 10 Kercheval Avenue in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, is one of the buildings of the Grosse Pointe Public Library. Constructed in 1953, it is significant as one of the first major public commissions in the United States of architect Marcel Breuer.”
Wikipedia article Grosse Pointe Public Library Central Branch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Farms
When was it listed? April 2021
Category. building
City. Grosse Pointe Farms city
Architectural style. modern architecture
Architect. Marcel Breuer
National Register reference number. 100006438 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

60 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Grosse Pointe Central Library between 2018 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 7 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	25
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034676 - 2019
24 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034344 - 2019
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034155 - 2019
9 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EASTPOINTE FIRE/RESCUE 3373 - 2020
6 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0027928 - 2019
4 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0027607 - 2019
30 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0030888 - 2019
30 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR SHORES FD 0005454 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Pere Gabriel Richard Elementary School	0.1 miles	1994
Grosse Pointe High School	0.3 miles	1993
Christ Church Chapel	0.3 miles	1993
Beverly Road Historic District	0.4 miles	1995
Grosse Pointe Memorial Church	0.5 miles	1993
Paul Harvey Deming House	0.6 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006438 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 396 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.