The
Ransom Gillis House at the corner of Alfred and John R.
bespeaks the glories of the Gilded Age in Detroit.
Ransom Gillis
House
19th Century Detroit
became a thriving city by brokering its lumber age wealth into
an industrial base that provided the basis for the automobile
explosion which soon followed.
Detroit's upperclass built
sumptuous residences on the outskirts of the city which today
lay deep within the urban sprawl. These ruins may be seen today
in the Brush Park area and along Trumbull Avenue north of Grand
River Avenue.
