Mackenzie House
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This 1895 Queen Anne-style house, designed by Malcomson and Higginbotham, was the home of David Mackenzie. Educator, scholar, and humanitarian, Mackenzie fostered higher education for Detroit students. While principal of Central High School, then housed in what is now “Old Main,” he established the Detroit Junior College in 1917.
Six years later that institution expanded to become the College of the City of Detroit with Mackenzie as its first dean. This was the nucleus from which Wayne State University grew.
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