Motown Museum, Detroit MI | Nearby Businesses

• Museum
• Non-Profit Organization

2648 W Grand Blvd
Detroit, MI 48208
(313) 875-2264

"Hitsville U.S.A." is the nickname given to Motown's first headquarters. A former photographers' studio located at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan, approaching the New Center area, it was purchased by Motown founder Berry Gordy in 1959.It was converted for use as the record label's administrative building and recording studio, which was open 22 hours a day (closing from 8 to 10 a.m. for maintenance). Following mainstream success in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gordy moved the label to Los Angeles and established the Hitsville West studio there, as a part of his focus on television and film production as well as music production.West Grand BoulevardIn 1959, Gordy formed his first label, Tamla Records, and purchased the property that would become Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studio. The photography studio located in the back of the property was modified into a small recording studio, and the Gordys moved into the second-floor living quarters. Within seven years, Motown would occupy seven additional neighboring houses:Hitsville U.S.A., 1959 – (ground floor) administrative office, tape library, control room, Studio A; (upper floor) Gordy living quarters (1959–1962), artists and repertoire (1962–1972)Jobete Publishing office, 1961 – sales, billing, collections, shipping, and public relationsBerry Gordy Jr. Enterprise, 1962 – offices for Berry Gordy, Jr. and his sister Esther Gordy EdwardsFinance department, 1965 – royalties and payrollArtist personal development, 1966 – Harvey Fuqua (head of artist development and producer of stage performances), Maxine Powell (instructor in grooming, poise, and social graces for Motown artists), Maurice King (vocal coach, musical director and arranger), Cholly Atkins (house choreography), and rehearsal studiosTwo houses for administrative offices, 1966 – sales and marketing, traveling and traffic, and mixing and masteringITMI (International Talent Management Inc.) office, 1966 – management Motown had hired over 450 employees and had a gross income of $20 million by the end of 1966.

At this time the DCM is ONLY open to DPS schools. We are working on funding to reopen. We regret any inconvenience this may cause. The Detroit Children's Museum is a great place for the little ones in your life. The wide variety of hands-on experiences throughout the museum is a great way to utilize play to expand your child's interest in history, science, social studies, and more.

Kunsthalle Detroit seeks to be the defining museum of 21st Century art. The Museum collects, exhibits, preserves, researches, and interprets multimedia art in the broadest global, historical and interdisciplinary contexts. As the preeminent advocate for multimedia art, we foster the work of international and American artists in the mediums of film, video, photography, light, computer generated, web based, light sculpture and design. Kunsthalle Detroit seeks to catalyze and support the creation of new art, expose our visitors to bold visual and performing art and re-invigorate the life of a region in socio-economic need.

Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Inc. was founded February, 1943, by the late Elizabeth Garner, teacher and the late Violet T. Lewis, owner of Lewis Business College, Detroit, Michigan. The founders, along with the other eleven members are known as the Sorority's 13 Original Pearls. Each of the teachers pledged to organize a chapter of the Sorority in her home city. The next chapter to be formed was Gamma Chapter in Indianapolis, Indiana, Ivalue Lennear's hometown. As a special dispensation, the chapter was allowed to use Gamma (instead of Beta, the second letter in the Greek alphabet) as its name. The purpose of the organization is: 1. To unite fraternally for charitable, educational and fraternal purposes, and to establish and maintain active chapters throughout the United States. 2. To foster the improvements of the educational and vocational status of young people with special emphasis on underprivileged youth. 3. To assist said youth through broadening their educational objectives by encouragement, dissemination of information and financial assistance, and to promote the beneficial use of acquired education and/or training to the best interest of the community. And finally; 4. To create a better understanding between women of all races and creeds; promoting higher education through encouragement and financial aid; and to promote cultural enrichment and to serve mankind. Gamma Phi Delta Sorority attracts business-women and professional women from many fields, and Chapters are located throughout the United States. On the National level, four (4) scholarships and two (2) Endowments are awarded annually. The Scholarships are: The Gamma Phi Delta Merit Scholarship; the Elizabeth Garner Memorial Scholarship; the Violet T. Lewis Memorial Scholarship and the Undergraduate Scholarship. And the Endowment Funds are; The Luthermae E. Adams Endowment Fund and The Ann McElwee Perpetual Endowment Fund. In addition, our member chapters award scholarships on the local level. The most satisfying and rewarding experience is the four youth groups, Rosebuds, Phi-Teens, Junior Cavaliers and Cavaliers. Youth group programs promote the continual quest for knowledge and academic excellence and it epitomizes the Sorority's aim of striving for refinement and culture. Each group is challenged to achieve their worthwhile goals through association with Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Inc. Gamma Phi Delta supports charities that are serving humanity and whose objectives are paralleled to our aims. Our chapter members with charities of their choice, contribute their time, expertise and finance. Gamma Phi Delta is non-political and non-sectarian. However, we encourage members to participate in political actions of their choosing and welcome members of religious beliefs and a general recognition of a Supreme Being is a part of our CREED.

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MOTTEP serves the African American, American Indian, Hispanic/Latino and Asian/Pacific Islander populations statewide. We use a community-based approach to increase the number of minority organ and tissue donors, and to encourage healthy living to lessen the need for transplants within minority communities. Organ donation is critical to the minority community because minorities in general (and African Americans in particular) are disproportionately affected by diseases that often lead to organ failure including diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. Key facts about minorities and donation and transplantation: • 50% of all patients waiting for transplants are of an ethnic minority. • Nearly 50% of those needing kidney transplants in Michigan are African American. • 25 % of the available donors are minorities. Minorities do donate organs and tissues, but not enough to meet the urgent need. Some may be reluctant to sign the Michigan Organ Donor Registry because of: • Religious beliefs and superstitions • Mistrust of the medical community • Lack of awareness • Racism • Fear of premature death

Learn more at www.ForwardArtsDetroit.org: Programs Department of Art Detroit | Our visual arts division. Past programming includes Belle Isle Art Exhibit, Scripps Park Art Exhibit, Detroit Sees and multiple 8-10 week youth art labs. Emerging Arts Leaders Detroit | This program is dedicated to educating and connecting emerging art administrators in southeast-Michigan. Sound It Out | The motto for our music program is No Genres, Just Good Music. Currently our Young Lions Detroit program, part of Sound It Out, is developing a larger audience for jazz among under 40 demographics and highlighting young jazz musicians through jazz programming. More coming soon! Projects | http://www.forwardartsdetroit.org/Projects.aspx Example Project: Matthew Barney’s Ancient Evenings | Worked with world-renowned artist Matthew Barney on production for his major film and performance art project Ancient Evenings. Production work included hiring and coordinating 55 professional classical and jazz musicians and injecting over $50,000 into the Michigan arts economy. Events Detroit Love | Annual City of Detroit birthday celebration and fundraiser.

Playworks Michigan has served over 35,000 students with our programming aimed at improving the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for safe, meaningful play. For the 2015-16 school year Playworks Michigan will serve 16 schools throughout the Metro Detroit area.

Resources and advocacy for Detroit's creative community. The DC3 is metropolitan Detroit’s creative industries advocacy organization, providing leadership and programming to elevate the economic output and social impact of Detroit and the metropolitan area’s creative economy. Its vision is to grow creative sector jobs in the Detroit region and to establish Detroit as a recognized global center for design, creativity and innovation. Its mission is to cultivate creative density in Detroit’s Creative Corridor while strengthening the market for creative goods and services in metropolitan Detroit. Signature DC3-led programs support creative businesses, promote creative talent and advocate for metropolitan Detroit's creative industries. The DC3 is unusual in that it is one of the few economic development partnerships serving the creative industries in North America co-founded and co-supported by the business community – as represented by Business Leaders for Michigan – and the academic community – as represented by the College for Creative Studies.

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