GPHS blue prints find a new homeThe GPHS has been responsible for hundreds of blue prints that werebrought in years ago from the <strong>Grosse</strong> <strong>Pointe</strong> city and real estate offices. Theproper storage of these blue prints has been a challenge. Though light in weight,they take up a lot of space.When more blue prints became available from the <strong>Grosse</strong> <strong>Pointe</strong> Park offices,former board member Peter Robbins offered to house them in his basement.That was over 15 years ago. Eager to keep these valuable remnants of<strong>Grosse</strong> <strong>Pointe</strong>’s architectural history properly stored, the GPHS searched for anappropriate place for these blue prints.During a recent meeting to determine another collaborative project betweenthe GPHS and the <strong>Grosse</strong> <strong>Pointe</strong> Public Library Director, Vickey Bloom,Assistant Director, James Moffett and Reference Librarian Mary Rapas, agreedto find safe storage space for these documents.The GPHS Board of Trustees unanimously approved the merger and onThursday, March <strong>29</strong>, six trusty volunteers suited up and delivered these treasuresto the <strong>Grosse</strong> <strong>Pointe</strong> Woods Library.The GPHS blue prints have been properly catalogued thanksto the hard work of long time volunteer Ellie Moran. She handwrote the addresses of every blueprint on round labels back whenJean Dodenhoff was in charge. “This made my job much easier,”said Michelle Agosta, current manager of the blue prints.The prints from <strong>Grosse</strong> <strong>Pointe</strong> Park are another story. Theyneed to be labeled and catalogued. “This will takes months for usto accomplish,” says Agosta. The ultimate goal of this project isto have blue print reproduction capability available to the community.If anyone in any of the <strong>Pointe</strong>s has blue prints in their homesand would like to see them stored safely at the Library, call theGPHS at 313-884-7010.The blue print volunteer team has loaded theU-haul and are ready to transport the blue printsto the GPW Library.From left to right: Adrianna Agosta, JackMcCormick, Izzy Donnelly and Mike Skinner.Not shown are Gail Sidlek and Michelle Agosta.GPW library – the blue prints are on the shelves.From left to right: Katie Ecclestone, Mark Pinney, Michelle Agosta andVickey Bloom, Director of the <strong>Grosse</strong> <strong>Pointe</strong> Library.Social Secretary BooksThank you to those of you who brought in the Social Secretary books werequested in the last Moorings!These books are valuable assets to membersworking on home and family research.Because of your donations, we have added11 books to our collection. (Please see thedonor list for details). After contacting theSocial Secretary office of <strong>Grosse</strong> <strong>Pointe</strong> wealso received the blue books from 2010 and2011. They informed us that all future bookswill be printed every other year.We are still looking for 1959 and 2003 of the blue books and 1922, 1924,1925, 1926, 19<strong>29</strong>, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1942 and 1945 of the brown books.13 books were added to the “Blue book” cabinet4