GROSSE POINTE
Town — Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
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The lake suburb—where the mansions hold their dead.

Grosse Pointe is a town in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. The lake suburb—where the mansions hold their dead. Its accounts name only a collective — the grosse pointe dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It is a living community — be a respectful visitor.

Grosse Pointe is the auto barons' suburb — the Lake St. Clair shore where the Ford and Dodge and Packard fortunes built mansions. The summer colony came first — the Victorian cottages and the frog-leg roadhouses, the Detroit escape before the cars were the industry. The mansions came with the money — Albert Kahn's designs, Edsel Ford's Cotswold manor, the Alger House that's the war memorial now.
The Prohibition was the lake's work — the seventy-five percent of illegal liquor that came through the Pointe, the Canadian whiskey on the pleasure boats. The mansions are the survival — the Edsel Ford House kept as Eleanor left it, the Jens Jensen grounds, the houses that became museums and memorials. Grosse Pointe is the Gatsby geography — the wealth the auto industry built on the water, the suburb that was the destination.
The file keeps Grosse Pointe: the auto baron mansions, the Edsel Ford House, the Prohibition rum-running, and the war memorial.
Grosse Pointe is the archive's Detroit file — the auto money on Lake St. Clair.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Grosse Pointe is the archive's Detroit file — the mansions the auto barons built.
A suburb keeps its money — the file's suggestion being that Grosse Pointe's hold is the industry: the Ford and Dodge estates, the rum-running on the lake, and the houses that are the auto age's architecture.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] apparition: Reported figures in the town. Grosse Pointe, Michigan is a living community with a dead file — the reports are the town's other history. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. Sources including 'Grosse Pointe' keep the claim in circulation. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
  source: Grosse Pointe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosse_Pointe)
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The dead are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the Grosse Pointe dead. Grosse Pointe, Michigan is a living community with a dead file — the reports are the town's other history. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The account appears in 'Grosse Pointe'. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.
  source: Grosse Pointe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosse_Pointe)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The suburb’s history is documented. A Michigan community's documented history gives the file real ground underneath the local lore. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Grosse Pointe' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Grosse Pointe — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosse_Pointe

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