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Advanced tickets on sale and pictures of the 2013 tour homes:
http://www.historicindianvillage.org...ardentour.html
Built by Modern Construction Company. First owner was Dr. Charles G. Anderson. The original cost was $4,000.
3524 Burns built in 1918 Indian Village Historic District Detroit, MI.
Designed by Chicagoan William Mann for McPherson Browning. Original cost $16,000.
2940 Iroquios built in 1916 Indian Village Historic District Detroit, MI.
Designed by Smith, Hinchman & Grylls for G. Ogden Ellis. Original Cost $35,000.
2535 Iroquois built in 1915 Indian Village Historic District Detroit, MI.
A design by J. H. Gustav Steffens for Judge Adolph Marschner. The original cost was $19,700.
2474 Iroquois built in 1927 Indian Village Historic District Detroit, MI.
Designed by Harry S. Angell for George W. Seiberling. The original cost was $9,000.
2253 Iroquois built in 1915 Indian Village Historic District Detroit, MI.
An Albert Kahn design for Francis Charles McMath. The original cost was $7,500.
1037 Iroquios built in 1902 Indian Village Historic District Detroit, MI.
Built by William Starrs. The first owner was Dr. Frank Joseph Sladen. The original cost was $8,000.
2207 Seminole built in 1917 Indian Village Historic District Detroit, MI.
A C. Howard Crane design for H. Cleland Allison. The original cost was $7,000.
2163 Seminole built in 1912 Indian Village Historic District Detroit, MI.
All great homes, although 2474 Iroquois is my personal favorite. I'm glad to see that 3524 Burns is on the tour - since its on the far fringe of the neighborhood. How is that block holding up? I really enjoyed taking the IV tour back when I lived on Parker.
I lived on Parker too, many years ago; in that giant house on the northwest corner of Lafayette, with the two giant white columns in front. It was a four or six family building. Each unit over 1500 sq.feet. each, as I recall. Huge. West Village was a nice place to live, even better now.Quote:
Originally Posted by DetroiterOnTheWestCoast
A design by Samuel C. Falkinburg.Quote:
Originally Posted by marshamusic
Colonial Apartments 1005 Parker Street built in 1901 West Village Historic District Detroit, MI.
I lived at the opposite end of the block - the house next door to the Parkhurst, in the third floor flat. Really enjoyed that area.
If you lived at 1099 I was in the apartment a couple weeks ago. The couple living there are customers. Except for the 3 floor walk up its a terrific unit.Quote:
Originally Posted by DetroiterOnTheWestCoast
Yes, it was 1099. As I recall the first and second floor units had identical floor plans and were much nicer than the modest third floor. But the third floor was a decent 2 bedroom with a nice living and full dining room. The entire house was entirely original when I lived there in the early '80's, but in good condition.
I am happily surprised to see 2535 Iroquois on the tour. It's a really spectacular house that I remember being in when I was a kid. But I believe it was sold cheap as a foreclosure just last year and was in pretty rough shape.
Oh my goodness!! Yes, that's it. It's actually called the Colonial. It was huge: a parlor or anteroom, living room, 2 bedrooms, full dining room, pantry, kitchen, then another small bedroom.Quote:
Originally Posted by p69rrh51
Its had a lot of owners though, I think.
Thanks for the memories!
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Originally Posted by p69rrh51
Dr. Sladen was one of the founding physicians at Henry Ford Hospital back in 1915 and served as physician-in-chief for many years. He was also old Henry Ford's personal physician.
Nice. That's a great corner in Detroit. A friend looked at an apartment in the Colonial a year or so ago. I pushed for him to take it for selfish visitation rights but sadly another location won out.
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Originally Posted by marshamusic
The Colonial Apartments are of the long hall variety that was in fashion for high-end apartments at that time. There are 2 adjoining parlors in the front of the apartment, one with a fireplace. From the parlor is a long hall off of which are the three bedrooms and the bathroom. At the end of the long hall is a large dining room with a bay window. Through the dining room is the kitchen followed by a small maid's room and bath. Also off the kitchen is the back porch and service stairs. All the apartments are pretty much the same with the exception of the unit on the south side of the third floor. That apartment [[perhaps designed for the owner) has elaborate cornice plaster moldings in the parlors and the dining room. There also is an additional apartment in the basement for the caretaker.
Neilr another apartment building similar to the Colonial, and one of my favorites.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neilr
West Grand Boulevard Apartments 347 West Grand Boulevard built in 1905 Hubbard Farms Historic District Detroit, MI.
Yes, p69rrh51, that's a fine one - one of my favorites also. And it's in relatively good shape. Those porches are really elegant. It's not called "Grand Blvd." for nothing!
Here's another of my favorite long-hall apartment buildings in Detroit. Alas, it's not in so fine shape. It's on Mt. Vernon, just east of Woodward.
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Wow, that is like the Colonial. I remember it, too. The blocks in this neighborhood on the Boulevard have some really nice, old homes.Quote:
Originally Posted by p69rrh51
I can tell when folks don't know the city; they'll refer to the street as West Grand, or East Grand, whereas we call it East Grand Boulevard, West Grand Boulevard or just The Boulevard.
When I was a kid, in the backseat of my father's car, once we passed the Packard Plant [[which was closed even then, around 1960) we'd drive by the beautiful houses of The Boulevard. All those homes that are now run-down and or have been turned into halfway houses were spectacular then, like Boston Edison.
Then we'd get close to Jefferson and beg him to take us through "the tunnel". I think now that maybe the "tunnel" was just an underpass beneath Jefferson, not a real tunnel to the way to the island. But what a rush when we were kids! LOL!
There is a law firm that has renovated one of the houses on East Grand Blvd., I think it's near Vernor. I've been to events there and it is beautiful inside; hopefully a portent of what is to come if there is more investment in those homes.
I bet Dad tooted the horn under Cobo Hall too!Quote:
Originally Posted by marshamusic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fWtVXkZ7gU
OMG!!! That was so exciting!!! LOLOL!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Honky Tonk
[[well, I guess you had to be there).
Amazing! That's is so funny, it wasn't a tunnel, it was just an overpass - and we used to just scream when we went under!
Omgoodness! Thanks! That was a good one!!!
Now, Cobo - I don't remember being under Cobo as a kid; living in Highland Park, we wouldn't take the Lodge to downtown - just Woodward, or JohnR.
But that Belle Isle excitement was enough! LOL!
Pardon my ignorance of such things. Are these conducted as guided or self-pace tours? If guided, is it a walking tour or does everyone climb on and off a shuttle bus or something similar?
Check the website for info. You can do a self guided tour or one with a guide. I don't know why you would need a guide though, because they give everyone a booklet with a lot of info. and a map of the house locations. They have a shuttle bus for people who can't walk but most people walk. Once you get to each house they take in small groups at a time and there are people stationed throughout the houses that also give info.Quote:
Pardon my ignorance of such things. Are these conducted as guided or self-pace tours? If guided, is it a walking tour or does everyone climb on and off a shuttle bus or something similar?
In addition to the tour houses, all the churches are usually open and also the Waldorf school.
Bump for next weekend.
For anyone interested in joining me for the tour on Sat. I will be at the Waldorf School, 2555 Burns at 11:00AM.
Can't believe that I am missing the Indian Village Home and Garden Tour again....
Am out of town this weekend...but am getting my architecture fix with a drive-by Frank Lloyd Wright house viewing and a visit to the Concordia Theological Seminary campus designed by Eero Saarinen...in Fort Wayne, Indiana!!!
While doing some prep work for the trip, I did run across a mention of a Detroiter Harold Holmes as the architect of the Kresge-Groth Building, which was built in 1926 as a 3-story Spanish Revival building used as Kresge dime store.