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Milton Supman’s Home, Detroit, Michigan

Milton Supman’s Detroit Home, more professionally known as Soupy Sales. Milton Supman (January 8, 1926 – October 22, 2009), known professionally as Soupy Sales, was an American comedian, actor, radio/television personality, and jazz aficionado.He was best known for his local and network children’s television show, Lunch with Soupy Sales (1953-1966), a series of comedy sketches Read More

Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester Hills, Michigan

Meadow Brook Hall is a Tudor revival style mansion located at 480 South Adams Road in Rochester Hills, Michigan. It was built between 1926 and 1929 by Matilda Dodge Wilson (the widow of auto pioneer John Francis Dodge) and her second husband, lumber broker Alfred G. Wilson. In 1957, the mansion and the surrounding property and buildings were donated to the State Read More

Martin Luther King’s Birth Home, Atlanta, Georgia

Martin Luther King‘s Birth Home is located at 501 Auburn Avenue in the Sweet Auburn historic district. Built in 1895, it sits about a block east of Ebenezer Baptist Church. King’s maternal grandparents, Reverend Adam Daniel (A.D.) Williams, who was pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, and his wife, Jennie Williams, bought the house for Read More

Mark Twain Boyhood Home, Hannibal, Missouri

Mark Twain Boyhood Home, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called “The Read More

Madonna Childhood Home, Rochester Hills, Michigan

Madonna Louise Ciccone born August 16, 1958) Michigan’s own superstar Madonna was born in Bay City, however she spent Many of her formative years in this modest home in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Born and raised in Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. Madonna attended Rochester Read More

Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois

Lincoln Home National Historic Site preserves the Springfield, Illinois home and a historic district where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1844 to 1861, before becoming the 16th President of the United States. The home was purchased by Lincoln and his wife in 1844 and was the only home that Lincoln ever owned. Their children, four sons, Read More

Liberace Home, Sherman Oaks, California

Liberace Home in Sherman Oaks; Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), known as Liberace, was an American pianist singer, and actor. A child prodigy and the son of working-class immigrants, Liberace enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame, Read More

Kirk Douglas’s Estate, Palm Springs, Calfornia

Kirk Douglas’s Estate in Palm Springs, Douglas lived there from the 1950s until 1999. Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch, December 9, 1916) is an American actor, producer, director, and author. He is one of the last surviving stars of the film industry’s Golden Age. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he Read More