Historic home in Palmer Woods catches fire

[Pam]

Massive fire engulfs mansion that belonged to family of former Detroit Tigers owner [[clickondetroit.com)

According to Historic Detroit, the home was built in the 1920s and owned by the family of Walter Briggs.

[Jimaz]

There's some video here:

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...its-west-side/

[MikeM]

I passed by it while it was in progress. Made quite the stink. I see it's owned by the dean of Michigan State University’s College of Education. The day before the fire, a right wing muckraker accused him of plagiarizing most of his academic work.

[EASTSIDER BALDUCK]

Hummm?

[Henry Whalley]

Which right wing muckraker?

[IrishSpartan]

Massive fire engulfs mansion that belonged to family of former Detroit Tigers owner [[clickondetroit.com)

This house once belonged to Mirton Briggs, who was the brother of Walter Briggs that formerly owned the Tigers. Mirt Briggs was a V.P. of Briggs Manufacturing and like Walter died before Chrysler bought them out.

[Danny]

It's going to take a while to rebuild the Briggs home. Please take care of those historic homes. Once it's gone, it gone for good.

Save our history.

[MikeM]

Which right wing muckraker?

Someone who knows someone who knows someone at the Washington Free Beacon.

[MikeM]

It's going to take a while to rebuild the Briggs home. Please take care of those historic homes. Once it's gone, it gone for good.

Save our history.

Drove by today. Yikes. Not looking promising. Hope they had good insurance.