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Calvert, between Rosa Parks [[12th Street) and Linwood has some of the largest and finest two family flats in metro Detroit.
Many of the original homeowners were Jewish professionals and businessmen and virtually all the flats were owner occupied. As the Jewish community continued its trek to the northwest, the new owners were mostly middle class black educators, religious leaders, and other professional and business people so the street held its own for several decades. While there still may be residents of that era on Calvert, as that group has left they have not been fully replaced in kind and the level of home ownership and maintenance has declined.
Many years ago, I developed a Detroit Doorways tour, restricting my choices to lesser known houses and neighborhoods. I did include several from that stretch of Calvert. Perhaps my favorite was 2075 Calvert [[architect unknown to me) on the southeast corner of 14th.
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A design by Leo Kulman.
580-582 Neff built in 1929 City of Grosse Pointe, MI.
A Ray W. Ponkey design.
80 South Deeplands built in 1955 Grosse Pointe Shores, MI.
Designed and built by William Graves for his own home.
3434 Burns built in 1914 Indian Village Historic District Detroit, MI.
A John L. Pottle design.
66 Webber Place built in 1960 Grosse Pointe Shores, MI.
A J. Ivan Dise design.
19222 Burlington built in 1927 Palmer Woods Historic District Detroit, MI.
A Rogers & MacFarlane design.
Michigan Central Railroad Depot 44 Mccamly Street North built in 1888 Battle Creek, MI.
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A design by Charles N. Agree. One of a few professional offices designed by Agree.
Medical Clinic 3341 East Jefferson built in 1946 Detroit, MI.
A Louis Weston design.
576-578 Neff built in 1940 City of Grosse Pointe, MI.
A design by Schneider & Barlow.
3480 Iroquois built in 1916 Indian Village Historic District Detroit, MI.
A Carl L. Habermas design.
135 Lewiston built in 1948 Grosse Pointe Farms, MI.
A Mildner & Eisen design including an image from a 1916 issue of the Western Architect. The Chicago misprint threw me off for awhile until I found the owner's name listed on Chicago Boulevard.
874 Chicago Boulevard built in 1913 Boston-Edison Historic District Detroit, MI.
A Donald Paul Young design.
1751 Seminole built in 1957 Indian Village Historic District Detroit, MI.
Who determined the architects for the house listed.
Who determine this was an Agree house. Reply to sadler@vcu.edu Thank you.
There is a very nice black & white photograph[[along with the original owner's name) of the home contained in the Agree collection-Burton Historical Collection Detroit Public Library. A little leg work, some help from Google Maps, a 1921 City Directory and there the home was on Chicago Boulevard.
Doing research on a topic you love - whether it's music, your family's history, Ethiopian art, or in this case, architecture, can be just so much fun and very rewarding! But DetroitYES posters be warned: it can be a very slippery slope, especially if you ever wander into the Burton Historical Collection or the Azalia Hackley Collection or, really, any of the material that's deep in the stacks at the Main Branch of DPL.