Love this house on Grixdale

[Orthophonic]

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4...88441972_zpid/

I just love the interior and exterior photos of this house. I have no connection to it in any way, but saw it while helping my daughter look for a place. It is just… stunning. Especially the white and silver piano room [[IMHO). I think the buyer needs to insist all the interior furnishings remain as they are essential to the DNA of this place. Only a block from Palmer Park. Who knew?
Best,
Steve

[Zacha341]

Not my style of decor, but it's amazing how large the house is inside compared to the exterior appearance. I know smart sellers use wide-angled lense settings for photos, but wow!

[softailrider]

Palmer Park nearby, war zone nearby also.

[K-slice]

Houses like this make me glad I live in a historic district.

[Richard]

Houses like this make me glad I live in a historic district.

lol, it looks like a walk through of time from the 1920s to the 1970s showcasing different building trends styles and materials.

Definitely looks busy or confused depending on how one looks at it.

The stove and ovens on the kitchen look like somebody disassembled a couple of 1960s GM Flair stoves and users them as built-ins.

[Lowell]

Ha! What a find! Was that Liberace's house?

Totally over the top. And be sure to take off your shoes.

[Orthophonic]

Ha! What a find! Was that Liberace's house?

Totally over the top. And be sure to take off your shoes.

Exactly! Who could not love this for its over-the-top reach to greatness? Go Elvis, Go. I think Liberace may have been bested here. Just saying.

[Satiricalivory]

I was expecting some historical house porn, got an assault on my eyes instead.

[DetroiterOnTheWestCoast]

Ha! What a find! Was that Liberace’s house?

I actually bike past one of Liberace’s four Palm Springs homes regularly. I love the piano mailbox.

[Gistok]

What a pity they skimped on wrought iron....

[Pam]

This house has been in the Free Press before.

Why Internet is losing it over Detroit home photos [[freep.com)

[hybridy]

I've got whiplash from the asking price history. Once you strip away all of the interior furnishings it's simply very outdated. I think some 70's enthusiasts may be down on the kitchen, but the mechanicals + windows are likely original. The baths are all original from the 50's. There are also not any photos of the pool. When was it last opened and are pool mechanicals in operating condition? No bank will finance mortgage of anything over 200k just due to bombed out neighborhoods immediately adjacent in 3 directions and ZERO comps. I would declutter the interior, remove all wrought iron from windows, paint the fence black and get pool opened and running. Relist at $265k and see who bites.

9/13/2021	Price change	$345,000 [[-1.4%)$107/sqft
Source: Realcomp II #2210062475 Reporta problem
8/3/2021	Price change	$350,000 [[+7.7%)$109/sqft
Source: Realcomp II #2210062475 Reporta problem
8/2/2021	Listed for sale	$325,000 [[+30.3%)$101/sqft
Source: Realcomp II #2210062475 Reporta problem
9/10/2019	Listing removed	$249,500$78/sqft
Source: Keller Williams Professionals Reporta problem
8/13/2019	Price change	$249,500 [[-16.8%)$78/sqft
Source: Keller Williams Professionals Reporta problem
7/11/2019	Price change	$300,000 [[-20%)$93/sqft
Source: Keller Williams Professionals Reporta problem
4/29/2019	Price change	$374,900 [[0%)$117/sqft
Source: Real Estate One Reporta problem
10/27/2018	Price change	$375,000 [[-36.4%)$117/sqft
Source: Real Estate One Reporta problem
8/15/2018	Price change	$590,000 [[-1.5%)$184/sqft
Source: Real Estate One Reporta problem
6/13/2018	Price change	$599,000 [[+66.9%)$186/sqft
Source: Real Estate One Reporta problem
5/11/2018	Price change	$359,000 [[-34.7%)$112/sqft
Source: Real Estate One Reporta problem
3/16/2018	Listed for sale	$550,000$171/sqft
Source: Real Estate One Reporta problem

[13606Cedargrove]

Here is the proof - There is no accounting for taste.

[Honky Tonk]

Here is the proof - There is no accounting for taste.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

[Richard]

I've got whiplash from the asking price history. Once you strip away all of the interior furnishings it's simply very outdated. I think some 70's enthusiasts may be down on the kitchen, but the mechanicals + windows are likely original. The baths are all original from the 50's. There are also not any photos of the pool. When was it last opened and are pool mechanicals in operating condition? No bank will finance mortgage of anything over 200k just due to bombed out neighborhood immediately adjacent and ZERO comps. I would declutter the interior, remove all wrought iron from windows, paint the fence black and get pool opened and running. Relist at $265k and see who bites.

9/13/2021	Price change	$345,000 [[-1.4%)$107/sqft
Source: Realcomp II #2210062475 Reporta problem
8/3/2021	Price change	$350,000 [[+7.7%)$109/sqft
Source: Realcomp II #2210062475 Reporta problem
8/2/2021	Listed for sale	$325,000 [[+30.3%)$101/sqft
Source: Realcomp II #2210062475 Reporta problem
9/10/2019	Listing removed	$249,500$78/sqft
Source: Keller Williams Professionals Reporta problem
8/13/2019	Price change	$249,500 [[-16.8%)$78/sqft
Source: Keller Williams Professionals Reporta problem
7/11/2019	Price change	$300,000 [[-20%)$93/sqft
Source: Keller Williams Professionals Reporta problem
4/29/2019	Price change	$374,900 [[0%)$117/sqft
Source: Real Estate One Reporta problem
10/27/2018	Price change	$375,000 [[-36.4%)$117/sqft
Source: Real Estate One Reporta problem
8/15/2018	Price change	$590,000 [[-1.5%)$184/sqft
Source: Real Estate One Reporta problem
6/13/2018	Price change	$599,000 [[+66.9%)$186/sqft
Source: Real Estate One Reporta problem
5/11/2018	Price change	$359,000 [[-34.7%)$112/sqft
Source: Real Estate One Reporta problem
3/16/2018	Listed for sale	$550,000$171/sqft

Listed at 345 on Zillow but Pams link had it at 550 including furnishings,so the must have valued the furnishings at 200k ?

It’s what one would call a labor of love,never know though it may appeal to a artist or somebody very very very eclectic.

There is a video on YouTube named 10 houses nobody will buy at any cost,that are pretty much along the same lines as this.

[Meddle]

I see nothing of interest in that picture above. Maybe junk the trash and do a refit with tasteful items.

[Meddle]

Is THIS what we're talking about? What the hell is with the driveway lions?




This is as tacky as I've ever seen.

[Meddle]

Inside the red lines is some kind of weird Twilight Zone island. Some of the houses on the adjacent streets have potential and some look like they're being worked on in the street view maps of recent years. But outside the red lines is total trash, vacant, empty lots, falling down junk hulks. Are there plans for any of that?

[Jimaz]

^ I can't squint enough to see that so here's a Google Maps link to the same area. Up is west as in Meddle's original. The upper red line is John R. The others are Goldengate and Margaret.

W Grixdale & Charleston Street, Detroit, MI

[Meddle]

Up is East in mine, North is to the left.

Not sure why I did t that way except it fits on the screen better.

[Jimaz]

Up is East in mine, North is to the left....

You are correct. Mine too. My bad.

The infamous Robinwood St. is to the left.

[5939DT]

Are there any historians here who know after whom Grixdale was named? In a past life I knew some people named Grix, but they lived on Greendale - go figure.

[Richard]

^ I can't squint enough to see that so here's a Google Maps link to the same area. Up is west as in Meddle's original. The upper red line is John R. The others are Goldengate and Margaret.

W Grixdale & Charleston Street, Detroit, MI

Corner of Charleston and Hildale

You know when you have moved up in the world when the power pole signs change from.

We Buy Ugly Houses to Got Bed Bugs?

[detroitsgwenivere]

Are there any historians here who know after whom Grixdale was named? In a past life I knew some people named Grix, but they lived on Greendale - go figure.

Looks like you knew some relatives. Frank Grix, born in Germany back in 1868, used to be a produce merchant:

Per wiki: A little-known gem of a neighborhood with uniquely designed houses in an enclave of historic homes. Some of its stately homes sit on double-sized tree-lined lots built in the 1920s and 1930s. Once farmland owned by the Grix family in then Greenfield Township. Platted in 1913 by Frank Grix as the Grixdale Home Park Subdivision. The stretch of Woodward Ave. [[between 6 Mile and 7 Mile Roads) along Grixdale Farms is recognized as the first full mile of concrete paved road in the United States.^[8]


I've been inside this house before, super nice guy. Was there for an appointment and he kept me there talking for hours.


I used to post about this neighborhood a lot some years ago, the whole area had started to nosedive back in the 90's due to wide scale plumbing damage and grave illnesses to residents that slowly spread out block by block from the Greendale neighborhood across John R. This was caused by industrial waste pollution imported from GM in Canada being dumped by the 10s of thousands of gallons into the sewer system every day at the corner of Greendale and Brush by a company called Canflow:

Waste knot | Local News | Detroit | Detroit Metro Times

No can flow | Columns | Detroit | Detroit Metro Times

Despite the issues above, Grixdale was still pretty solidly populated back in about 2005, a few blocks of well maintained homes surrounded by mostly low income renters and some dilapidated vacants. The majority of the houses that are gone now were victims of the 07' housing crash. There were a hand full of landlords who owned most of the rentals, they pulled the equity out during the Countrywide era to buy more properties, then walked away from them after going underwater. All of the renters were forced out by the banks who had assumed the notes, and who had taken insurance out on the properties before letting them sit wide open for all of the left behind people to pick apart.

There are currently no plans in place for the area, the adjacent blocks are still waiting for hazardous clean up.

[Wheels]

Looks like you knew some relatives. Frank Grix, born in Germany back in 1868, used to be a produce merchant:

Per wiki: A little-known gem of a neighborhood with uniquely designed houses in an enclave of historic homes. Some of its stately homes sit on double-sized tree-lined lots built in the 1920s and 1930s. Once farmland owned by the Grix family in then Greenfield Township. Platted in 1913 by Frank Grix as the Grixdale Home Park Subdivision. The stretch of Woodward Ave. [[between 6 Mile and 7 Mile Roads) along Grixdale Farms is recognized as the first full mile of concrete paved road in the United States.^[8]


I've been inside this house before, super nice guy. Was there for an appointment and he kept me there talking for hours.


I used to post about this neighborhood a lot some years ago, the whole area had started to nosedive back in the 90's due to wide scale plumbing damage and grave illnesses to residents that slowly spread out block by block from the Greenfield neighborhood across John R. This was caused by industrial waste pollution imported from GM in Canada being dumped by the 10s of thousands of gallons into the sewer system every day at the corner of Greenfield and Brush by a company called Canflow:

Waste knot | Local News | Detroit | Detroit Metro Times

No can flow | Columns | Detroit | Detroit Metro Times

Despite the issues above, Grixdale was still pretty solidly populated back in about 2005, a few blocks of well maintained homes surrounded by mostly low income renters and some dilapidated vacants. The majority of the houses that are gone now were victims of the 07' housing crash. There were a hand full of landlords who owned most of the rentals, they pulled the equity out during the Countrywide era to buy more properties, then walked away from them after going underwater. All of the renters were forced out by the banks who had assumed the notes, and who had taken insurance out on the properties before letting them sit wide open for all of the left behind people to pick apart.

There are currently no plans in place for the area, the adjacent blocks are still waiting for hazardous clean up.

Greenfield and Brush? Did you mead Greendale? I grew up on Brush and Louisiana across from Greenfield Park school but no Greenfield street.