Michigan
Wayne County
City of Detroit

United Sound Systems

United Sound Systems is a recording studio and locally designated historic district in , , United States. Many popular music artists over the last seventy years have recorded at the facility, including blues musicians like John Lee Hooker, and funk bands like Parliament-Funkadelic.
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  • Type: Recording studio
  • Description: recording studio and locally designated historic district in Detroit, Michigan, United States
  • Also known as: “United Sound”, “United Sound Studios”, “United Sound Systems Recording Studio”, “United Sound Systems Recording Studios”, “United Sounds Studios”, and “United USS”
  • Address: 5840 2nd Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Our Lady of the Rosary Church and Detroit Historical Museum.

Church
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a Roman Catholic church located at 5930 Woodward Avenue in . It was originally built as St. Joseph's Episcopal Church – from 1893 to 1896 – and is a historic Romanesque Revival church complex. is situated 1,200 feet northeast of United Sound Systems.

Museum
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The is located at 5401 Woodward Avenue in the city's Cultural Center Historic District in Midtown Detroit. It chronicles the history of the area from cobblestone streets, 19th century stores, the auto assembly line, toy trains, fur trading from the 18th century, and much more. is situated 1,600 feet southeast of United Sound Systems.

Library
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The , Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, located on the campus of Wayne State University in , contains millions of primary source documents related to the labor history of the United States, urban affairs, and the Wayne State University Archives. is situated 1,500 feet southeast of United Sound Systems.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ford–Lodge interchange and Midtown-New Center.

Locality
The is a freeway interchange in , Michigan. It forms the junction of Interstate 94, with M-10. The interchange was completed in 1955, and is the first full freeway-to-freeway interchange in the United States.

Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Midtown is the cultural center of . It is home to several museums and galleries, such as the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

Suburb
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is a commercial and residential district located in Detroit, Michigan, adjacent to Midtown, one mile north of the Cultural Center, and approximately three miles north of .

United Sound Systems

Latitude
42.36239° or 42° 21′ 45″ north
Longitude
-83.07218° or 83° 4′ 20″ west
Open location code
86JR9W6H+X4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 69287466
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­studio
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q2495290
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Turkish—“United Sound Systems” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “United Sound Systems”
  • Asturian: “United Sound Systems”
  • Basque: “United Sound Systems”
  • Catalan: “United Sound Systems”
  • Danish: “United Sound Systems”
  • Dutch: “United Sound Systems”
  • Finnish: “United Sound Systems”
  • French: “United Sound Systems”
  • German: “United Sound Studio”
  • German: “United Sound Systems”
  • Hungarian: “United Sound Systems”
  • Italian: “United Sound Systems”
  • Northern Sami: “United Sound Systems”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “United Sound Systems”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “United Sound Systems”
  • Polish: “United Sound Systems”
  • Portuguese: “United Sound Systems”
  • Romanian: “United Sound Systems”
  • Spanish: “United Sound Systems”
  • Swedish: “United Sound Systems”
  • Turkish: “United Sound Systems”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “United Sound Systems”. Photo: Detroitsound, CC BY-SA 4.0.