Finney High School

Jared W. Finney High School was a public comprehensive high school in northeastern Detroit, Michigan, United States. Located at 17200 Southampton, it was a part of Detroit Public Schools, and was in proximity to the Grosse Pointes.[1]

History[edit]

The school first opened as an elementary school in 1928.[2][3][4][5] It became a high school in 1962.[6][7]

Finney received a $2.5 million bond investment prior to its closure in 2009.[2] The original plan was to rebuild the school in a new $75 million campus on the same site shared with McNair Pre-K-8, but those plans changed.[8] In 2012, Finney and Crockett High School merged into East English Village Preparatory Academy,[2] which was built on the former site of Finney.[1]

The school was named after Detroiter Jared Warner Finney, a United States Commissioner and U.S. Attorney, in honor of his wide-ranging contributions to the City of Detroit. He was one of two sole members of the first graduating class of Detroit High School in 1861. Jared's father, Seymour Finney, was a prominent conductor on Detroit's underground railroad and owned "Finney's Barn," near Griswold and State streets, where the family hid former slaves and helped ferry them to freedom in Canada.[9]

Notable alumni[edit]

Maria Ewing

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Foster, Terry. "Detroit King pulls out another tough one over East English Village Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine" (archive). Detroit News. September 7, 2013. Retrieved on August 8, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "Some DPS buildings no longer in use after major investments" (archive). Detroit Free Press. October 7, 2013. Retrieved on August 8, 2015.
  3. ^ "Detroit Schools 1842-2015 - Public". Google Docs. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  4. ^ "Bankrupt and Shrinking, Detroit Selling 79 Abandoned Schools". Curbed Detroit. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  5. ^ "hotfudgedetroit.com • View topic - Scrappers in Action". hotfudgedetroit.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  6. ^ "Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan on February 1, 1975 · Page 10". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  7. ^ "Detroit Finney Highlanders All-time Michigan high school football/basketball conference records". michigan-football.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  8. ^ Schultz, Marisa. "DPS parents feeling betrayed Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine" (archive). The Detroit News. March 20, 2010. Retrieved on August 8, 2015.
  9. ^ Successful Men of Michigan: A Compilation of Useful Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men. SI. U. Collins. 1914.
  10. ^ Mitch Hotts (November 3, 2020). "Calandrino chosen as Utica's next mayor".
  11. ^ "Tony F. Elliott". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
  12. ^ "68 Cairngorm "Maria Louise Ewing" (Finney Jr. Sr. High School, Detroit)". Ancestry.com. Generations Network. 1968. p. 30. Retrieved 25 August 2020.

External links[edit]


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