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Academy of the Sacred Heart

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Grosse Pointe Academy is an independent day school located at 171 Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Originally known as the Academy of the Sacred Heart, the campus buildings were designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Grosse Pointe Academy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 171 Lake Shore Dr., Grosse Pointe Farms, 48236
When was it listed? June 1987
Category. district
City. Grosse Pointe Farms city
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 87001061 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

45 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Academy of the Sacred Heart between 2018 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 4 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	17
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	4
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
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034155 - 2019
6 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0027928 - 2019
30 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR SHORES FD 0005454 - 2018
25 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0030316 - 2019
24 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0030178 - 2019
14 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0029062 - 2019
13 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0028947 - 2019

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
Paul Harvey Deming House	under 500 feet	1996
Saint Paul Catholic Church Complex	0.2 miles	1994
Christ Church Chapel	0.4 miles	1993
Grosse Pointe Memorial Church	0.4 miles	1993
Russell A. Alger Jr. House	0.4 miles	1982
Grosse Pointe High School	0.5 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001061 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.