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English: The Hellenic Museum of Michigan, 67 East Kirby Street, Detroit, Michigan, December 2020. Designed by architect John Scott, there are many elements of the building's design that point the way forward toward the Tudor Revivalism that would come into vogue within the next decades, evoked by the prominent Gibbs surrounds that frame the windows, the steeply-pitched side-gabled roof, and particularly by the entrance, in which a bluntly pointed arch frames a heavy wooden door. The prominent Dutch gable crowning said entrance, however - along with the Classical motifs on the reliefs carved into the frieze above the entrance - place the ultimate style of the architecture firmly into the Flemish Renaissance Revival sphere. Emory Leyden Ford (1876-1942) made his fortune in the chemical industry, specifically as president of the Michigan Alkali Company and the J. B. Ford Chemical Company as well as an executive of a number of different firms in a variety of fields. He is unrelated to the Ford family of automotive fame. Ford lived in the house from its construction in 1906 until the completion of his now-demolished English Renaissance-style mansion in Grosse Pointe ten years later. Subsequent owners include Robert Pauli Scherer (1906-1960), inventor and producer of a rotary die encapsulation machine used to manufacture gelatin capsules for pharmaceutical products, as well as the Detroit Children's Museum, which occupied the building from the 1990s until its closure in 2011. Since 2013, housed here has been the Hellenic Museum of Michigan, one of only two such museums in the country at the time, with a mission of celebrating the heritage and culture of the Greek-American community in Detroit and statewide.