Diana Ross Childhood Home

This is the North End house where a young Diana Ross lived before the Supremes made her one of the most famous women on earth — and where, around age eight, she got to know a neighbor a few doors down named Smokey Robinson. That proximity mattered: years later, Smokey helped Diana’s group (then the Primettes) get a foot inside Motown’s door. The family left Belmont on Diana’s 14th birthday in 1958 for the Brewster-Douglass projects, and she went on to Cass Tech to study fashion design before destiny intervened. Here’s the kicker that captures the whole Motown wealth arc: this modest two-story home reportedly once sold for $1,800 — while Diana would later buy a Miami Beach mansion for $15.5 million. Same woman, two worlds, one starting line on Belmont Street.