Nellie Leland School

The Nellie Leland School is a school building, originally built to serve handicapped children, located at 1395 Antietam Street in Detroit, Michigan (the former location of the Detroit Barracks, where Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant served from 1849 - 1851.) It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. The building has been renovated into loft space. Henry M. Leland was a Detroit automotive pioneer who founded both the Cadillac and Lincoln automotive companies. His wife, Nellie Leland, was active in the philanthropic community, focusing on the hardships of poor citizens with tuberculosis and promoting the scientific search for a cure. Nellie Leland died in 1910, but two years later, Henry built an open-air school to...