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Pere Gabriel Richard Elementary School

Built in 1929. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Pere Gabriel Richard Elementary School is a public school located at 176 McKinley Avenue in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”
Wikipedia article Pere Gabriel Richard Elementary School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1929.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Richard, Pere Gabriel, Elementary School - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 176 McKinley Ave., Grosse Pointe Farms, 48236
When was it listed? July 1994
Category. building
City. Grosse Pointe Farms city
When was it built? 1929
National Register reference number. 94000752 - 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

57 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Pere Gabriel Richard Elementary School between 2018 and 2020, burning about 56 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	22
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
Grosse Pointe Central Library	0.1 miles	2021
Christ Church Chapel	0.3 miles	1993
Grosse Pointe High School	0.3 miles	1993
Beverly Road Historic District	0.5 miles	1995
Grosse Pointe Memorial Church	0.5 miles	1993
Saint Paul Catholic Church Complex	0.6 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000752 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.