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Pleasant Ridge is bordered on the south by the city of Ferndale, which is considered the center of the LGBT community in the Metro Detroit region. [10] The city of Pleasant Ridge is among the top cities in the nation with same-sex couple households, with at least 60 per 1,000 according to figures from the United States Census Bureau. [11]
The LGBT community in Metro Detroit is centered in Ferndale, Michigan, as of 2007. [1] As of 1997, many LGBT people live in Ferndale, Pleasant Ridge , and Royal Oak . [ 2 ] Model D stated in 2007 that there are populations of gays and lesbians in some Detroit neighborhoods such as East English Village , Indian Village , Lafayette Park , and ...
The Pleasant Ridge Historic District is a primarily residential historic district located in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan.The original portion of the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, and encompassed an area west of Woodward Avenue to Ridge Road, and running from Millington Road to the city limits of Ferndale.
The Pleasant Ridge East Historic District is a primarily single-family home residential district, with only a few commercial properties along Woodward and Main Street. The neighborhoods are remarkably intact and cohesive, with homes representing a variety of architectural styles popular during the 1920s and 1930s, including colonials, English ...
Formerly known as Pleasant Ridge School and Ridge Road School. Opened October 1921. Now district offices. [33] Became district administration building in 2024. Taft Digital Learning Center: 427 Allen St, Ferndale: Opened January 1928, became adult education center in 2002, closed 2016, demolished 2017. [34] Washington School: 1201 Livernois St ...
Affirmations, a 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m 2) LGBT community center in Downtown Ferndale, opened its new, expanded building on Sunday June 3, 2007, [20] the same year the city elected the first openly gay mayor in Michigan. In 2011, Motor City Pride moved to Detroit's Hart Plaza. Ferndale Pride was started that year.
Michigan's 11th congressional district is a United States congressional district north of Detroit, comprising most of urbanized central Oakland County. Until 1993, the district covered the state's Upper Peninsula and the northernmost portion of the Lower Peninsula (a.k.a. Northern Michigan). In redistricting that year, it was shifted to the ...
Interstate 696 (I-696) is an east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway in the Metro Detroit region of the US state of Michigan.The state trunkline highway is also known as the Walter P. Reuther Freeway, named for the prominent auto industry union head by the Michigan Legislature in 1971.