208 Mack - Where is Albert Kahn's Historical Marker?

[archfan]

By whom? These plaques get put up on private property because the then current owner agrees, but once the property is sold there is no requirement for the new owner[[s) to maintain the property and no other funding mechanism for anyone else to do it.

You could add a preservation easement, to make sure the house isn't demolished or significantly altered. But there isn't anything that says you have to maintain it.

[kathy2trips]

You could add a preservation easement, to make sure the house isn't demolished or significantly altered. But there isn't anything that says you have to maintain it.

That's very true. All one has to do is look around the city at significant structures crumbling before our eyes to support that fact. A plaque, however calls attention to the significance of the structure and, perhaps, raise awareness of just what Detroit has in the way of tangible, touchable history.