🏢 The United Nations headquarters was almost put in Michigan! On Dec. 7, 1945 Michigan leaders formally offered the entire 33,000-acre Sugar Island (near Sault Ste. Marie) as a peaceful new “International Island” for the U.N. headquarters. Detroit newspapers published proposals showing massive U.N. buildings on Sugar Island. However, John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated $8.5 million in land in New York to the United Nations and New York was ultimately chosen. #UnitedNations #Michigan #saultstemarie

EXCLUSIVE AFTER-HOURS TOUR @ THE UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS THURSDAY, OCT 9 @ 5:00PM ET! Officially opened in 1952, The United Nations Headquarters in New York City remains the one place on Earth where all the world’s nations can come together, discuss common problems, and find shared solutions that benefit all of humanity. And no areas at the complex encompass those values more than the Conference Building and General Assembly, which contains the meeting spaces where world leaders and represen