404 East Ferry Avenue (House), Detroit, Wayne County, MI
Summary
Significance: In the 1930s Dr. Robert Greenidge, Detroit's first black radiologist, converted the house at 404 East Ferry Avenue into a sanitarium to treat blacks in the city. Greenidge was also a founder of Dunbar Hospital, Detroit's first black hospital. The house is also a contributing element to the East Ferry Avenue Historic District (HABS No. MI-311), a turn-of-the-century, upper class, residential neighborhood.
Survey number: HABS MI-312
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Detroit (Mich.), 42.36267, -83.06217
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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