Quote Originally Posted by softailrider View Post
All the beautiful 1920's brick houses got torched or vandalized or whatever and they're being replaced by that shit? I think I want to cry.

Don't forget that many of those 1910s-1920s homes were also kit houses:

http://www.antiquehome.org/House-Pla...g/Van-Dyke.htm

http://www.antiquehome.org/House-Pla...Charlevoix.htm

http://www.antiquehome.org/House-Pla...ng/Senator.htm


Basically, if you were close enough to a rail line [[the entire city), supplied your own foundation, mason, and plumbing fixtures, the $1,000 or less price tag for the rest of the house had mass appeal. Figure in cheap freight charges, as many of these homes came from Bay City.

Tell me the last one doesn't look like any house over on Field near Charlevoix, or what used to be houses on Garland, St. Clair, or Bewick.