Restoring a Fisher mansion

**buildingsofdetroit** · September-25-10, 02:23 PM

http://www.freep.com/article/2010092...NESS06/9240329

**blackmath** · September-25-10, 02:56 PM

That's great news. What a gorgeous place, and it's nice that it's staying in the Fisher family.

**Patrick** · September-25-10, 04:03 PM

One of our frequent posters on DYes lived there for a while in the late 80s or early 90s and talked about it a lot. I think the poster was CrashNYC...

**lizaanne** · September-25-10, 07:29 PM

Wow - what a treasure!! I would have loved to see some photos of the chapel.

**1KielsonDrive** · September-27-10, 12:29 AM

Great news! Great news!

**Thruster315** · September-27-10, 11:06 AM

That part of town is always a gem. Nice to see it coming back to its former glory.

**txlady** · September-28-10, 09:45 PM

He bought this place, is going to renovate it up from 35 years of neglect, and it's still going to cost him far less than $1 million dollars?!? The ironic thing is that I moved to Texas 20 years ago because I couldn't afford a house in the Metro area.

Glad to see a landmark preserved instead of torn down!!

**Detroitej72** · September-28-10, 10:54 PM

I, for one, am glad to see an heir to the original owner buy the place with the main goal to be to restore it and live there.

Imagine for a second, if all the heir's of Detroit's storied, rich, Moneyed past bought their ancestor's homes, and mansions, and moved in, while restoring them to their former grandaur...

Imagine then, if all former Detroiter's followed this lead and bought, moved to, and restored their childhood homes... Detroit would see a Renascence unlike any other American city...

All it takes is for family members of Detroit's "old money" to come back home...

One can dream, can't they?