When did this house in N. Corktown burn?

**Pcm** · May-10-13, 11:02 AM

Noticed it a couple of days ago burned to the ground. Anybody in the neighborhood know when it happened? It used to be beautiful.

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Right across the street from Motor City Casino.

**gvidas** · May-10-13, 12:45 PM

Somewhere between Sunday and Tuesday, maybe Monday morning? This week has gone really fast.

**Bham1982** · May-10-13, 12:52 PM

Briggs neighborhood is basically gone. It has been cleared out, lost its landmark, and real estate speculators tried to rename it.

**Jimaz** · May-10-13, 12:54 PM

I'm confused. What's the address?

Here's a similar but different house near Motor City Casino.

Google Maps gives this one's approximate address as 1405 Spruce St.

**drjeff** · May-10-13, 01:02 PM

Originally Posted by Jimaz

I'm confused. What's the address?

Here's a similar but different house near Motor City Casino.

Google Maps gives this one's approximate address as 1405 Spruce St.

The house in question is on Trumbull near Butternut.

**Jimaz** · May-10-13, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by drjeff

The house in question is on Trumbull near Butternut.

Ah! Thank you very much.

Approx. 3019 Trumbull St.

**gvidas** · May-10-13, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by Bham1982

Briggs neighborhood is basically gone. It has been cleared out, lost its landmark, and real estate speculators tried to rename it.

Any discussion of the historical authenticity of a name hinges entirely on what era you want to romanticize.

On the Cass Corridor vs Midtown discussion, I'm solidly in the 'Cass Corridor is a discrete neighborhood within the larger Midtown region' camp. Coming from that, where calling your neighborhood one thing or another is taking a relatively specific position on some petty local politics, I spent a while swimming up the Briggs stream.

Lately, I've become convinced that North Corktown is the proper name.

The history as I've been told it: previous to I-75, Corktown as a neighborhood extended up to Grand River. Briggs [[and Core City) were names given to the lopped-off parts of Corktown after the freeways diced it up. Core City, partly from housing developments and partly from neighborhood groups, has been cemented slightly as a name. Outside of Google Maps, there really isn't much momentum behind calling this neighborhood Briggs.

So, calling the neighborhood North Corktown instead of Briggs is, yeah, motivated on some part by an interest in bringing the success and stability of Corktown north of I-75. But it's also grounded in a history that, from one perspective, has more behind it than Briggs ever did.

**detroitsgwenivere** · May-10-13, 02:13 PM

The house burned down on Sunday.

And the people who live in the neighborhood and are trying to build new housing there would beg to differ with you Bham.

**JenniferL** · May-10-13, 07:31 PM

That was a cute old house. I hope the people who lived there are OK.

**downtownguy** · May-11-13, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by detroitsgwenivere

The house burned down on Sunday.

And the people who live in the neighborhood and are trying to build new housing there would beg to differ with you Bham.

They aren't the only ones...

**poobert** · May-11-13, 03:00 PM

Wow. When I lived in that neighborhood, that house was beautiful and well-kept. My girlfriend lives in that neighborhood still, and despite all the grab-assing about how great greater downtown is these days, Briggs has certainly gotten worse, even since I lived there.

One day in broad daylight I watched some guy climb in the front window of that house since it had been abandoned. Only in Detroit.

So it makes you wonder - if the revitalization can't even spread as far from the core as Briggs, will it spread at all? My answer is certainly not. Downtown and Midtown are quite nice but throw a rock and you'll still hit no-man's land.

**preserve** · May-11-13, 03:22 PM

If Green Dot Stables is in Corktown Shores, I think we should call N. Corktown, Corktown Farms as that seems to be the way the area is going. I was sad to see both the house on Spruce and the one on Trumbull burned. Over the last couple of years a number of those older homes have gone up in smoke, damaging any house next door and maybe it's a blessing that most of them don't have homes next door.

**brandon48202** · May-12-13, 07:30 PM

Originally Posted by preserve

If Green Dot Stables is in Corktown Shores, I think we should call N. Corktown, Corktown Farms as that seems to be the way the area is going. I was sad to see both the house on Spruce and the one on Trumbull burned. Over the last couple of years a number of those older homes have gone up in smoke, damaging any house next door and maybe it's a blessing that most of them don't have homes next door.

A house burned down on Spruce? The one on Trumbull was totally stripped and squatter occupied when it burned down.

**Designerguy24** · May-12-13, 08:42 PM

I work at MotorCity Casino. It happend last Monday morning at 1:30 am

**Pontiac6000** · September-14-14, 04:22 PM

I noticed people working on the house, and living in it too; it had a dedicated rehabber fixing the house and grounds up- the landowner ? did not seem too friendly- gave me a lot of shady looks cause I used to walk home from work by there almost daily [[possibly cause I look more 30ish than 50). I gave them no need to resist my presence as I'd wait for the bus at the enclosed stop across the street. I used to live in the neighborhood from 1980-1988- they should have recognized me. But its still sad that its gone- I was hoping the old Victorian homes a block north would be rehabbed too.