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Grosse Pointe Public Library is a public library system serving the
Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointe refers to an affluent coastal area next to Detroit, Michigan, United States, that comprises five adjacent individual cities. From southwest to northeast, they are: * Grosse Pointe Park * Grosse Pointe * Grosse Pointe Farms * Grosse ...
area of Wayne County, Michigan. The Carolyn and Ted Ewald Memorial Branch Library in
Grosse Pointe Park Grosse Pointe Park is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 11,555 at the 2010 census. Bordering on Detroit with frontage on southern Lake St. Clair, it is the southernmost of the Grosse Pointe suburbs. Gro ...
was scheduled to open in 2004. The branch was originally scheduled to open in October of that year, but delays moved the opening month to January 2005. The library owns a
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made by
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. In July 2015 it was appraised to be worth $10 million.


Branches

The system has three branches:Hours & Location
." Grosse Pointe Public Library. Retrieved on April 3, 2010. * Central Branch (
Grosse Pointe Farms Grosse Pointe Farms is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,479 at the 2010 census. As part of the Grosse Pointe collection of cities, it is a northeastern city of Metro Detroit and shares a small wester ...
) * Ewald Branch (
Grosse Pointe Park Grosse Pointe Park is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 11,555 at the 2010 census. Bordering on Detroit with frontage on southern Lake St. Clair, it is the southernmost of the Grosse Pointe suburbs. Gro ...
) * Woods Branch ( Grosse Pointe Woods)


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Grosse Pointe Public Library
{{authority control Library buildings completed in 2005 Public libraries in Michigan Education in Wayne County, Michigan