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Stavros K. Frangos, author of Greeks in Michigan, stated "From the 1890s to the present all available sources agree that" about one third of Michigan's Greek Americans live in Metro Detroit. [2] At the turn of the 20th Century the first Greek immigrants arrived. [1] The first year of entry was 1886. [2]
Greek American novelist Jeffrey Eugenides won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, about a Greek American family in Detroit. In 1967, Academy Award-winning film-director Elia Kazan published a novel, The Arrangement: A Novel, about a conflicted Greek American living a double life as an advertising executive and muckraking journalist ...
Andrea Dimitry – Greek-American soldier in the War of 1812 fought in the Battle of New Orleans; George Doundoulakis – Greek-American soldier who worked under British Intelligence during World War II and served with the OSS in Thessaly, Greece. Later becoming a physicist, he is known by his twenty-six US patents in the fields of radar ...
As of 1999 120,000 in Metro Detroit indicated they are of Greek descent. [21] Stavros K. Frangos, author of Greeks in Michigan , stated "From the 1890s to the present all available sources agree that" about one third of Michigan's Greek Americans live in Metro Detroit.
The building still stands, and displays a high-pitched roof common in Eastern European architecture. The Poles in Texas built brick houses with thatched roofs until the 1900s. That region in Texas is subject to less than 1 inch of snow per year, and meteorological studies show that level of insulation is unwarranted. [18]
On March 23, 1835, Methodist settlers in Spring Arbor Township obtained a charter for a new seminary from the Michigan Territorial Legislature. Construction began in 1837 outside Spring Arbor but the Panic of 1837 ended the project. A petition to move the seminary to Albion was approved by the legislature in 1839.
Greektown, Detroit. / 42.33500°N 83.04222°W / 42.33500; -83.04222. Greektown is a commercial and entertainment district in Detroit, Michigan, located just northeast of the heart of downtown, along Monroe Avenue between Brush and St. Antoine streets. It has a station by that name on the city's elevated downtown transit system known as ...
Greek Orthodox Church of Saint George, Des Moines, Iowa, NRHP-listed. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England, Boston, MA, NRHP-listed. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church (Lowell, Massachusetts), NRHP-listed. Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, University City, MO, NRHP-listed.