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The Octagon House, part of the Westland Historical Park Nankin Mills The Westland Shopping Center View from Ford Road in central Westland, MI. During the 18th century, the area was inhabited by the people of a Potawatomi Native American village. Other tribes, particularly three Algonquian tribes, used the area as hunting territory. Though white ...
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Name Image Location Summary Bricktown Historic District Separates the Renaissance Center from Greektown.: Bricktown separates the Renaissance Center from Greektown. [citation needed] Bricktown is home to St. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church, the oldest standing church in Detroit, and the Italian Renaissance style Wayne County Building (which was saved from demolition in the early 1980s).
To alleviate the shortage of housing space, Julius and William Schwartz platted the Annapolis Park suburb in what was then Nankin Township and is now Westland, specifically for African-Americans. [2] The neighborhood was platted in three sections: one in 1953, one in 1954, and one in 1955. [ 3 ]
The area that became Highland Park began as a small farming community, on a large ridge at what is now Woodward Avenue and Highland, six miles (9.7 km) north of Detroit. In 1818, prominent Detroit judge Augustus B. Woodward bought the ridge, and platted the village of Woodwardville in 1825.
Kevin Coleman (born June 30, 1983 [1]) is an American politician serving as the mayor of Westland, Michigan since 2023. [2] [3] A member of the Democratic Party, Coleman previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2019 to 2023.
The Belcrest Apartments is an apartment building located at 5440 Cass Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It was built in 1926 as the Belcrest Hotel , designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1983, [ 2 ] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [ 1 ]
Students north of Michigan Avenue and west of Middlebelt were rezoned to Wayne-Westland. [6] As of July 2013, there were 65 registered students, including 34 elementary students, 13 middle school students, and 18 high school students, in Inkster Public Schools who lived within that part of the former Inkster district assigned to Wayne-Westland.