208 Mack - Where is Albert Kahn's Historical Marker?

[GPCharles]

but more needs to be done to keep up the home

By whom? These plaques get put up on private property because the then current owner agrees, but once the property is sold there is no requirement for the new owner[[s) to maintain the property and no other funding mechanism for anyone else to do it.

[Zads07]

By whom? These plaques get put up on private property because the then current owner agrees, but once the property is sold there is no requirement for the new owner[[s) to maintain the property and no other funding mechanism for anyone else to do it.

Great question. I don't know if I have an answer for that. I would probably say it be deemed a historic place and be under an entity of sorts that would help at least monitor it so it wouldn't be sold or torn down.

[EastsideAl]

Great question. I don't know if I have an answer for that. I would probably say it be deemed a historic place and be under an entity of sorts that would help at least monitor it so it wouldn't be sold or torn down.

Something like what is done in Britain by English Heritage or the National Trust.

Here in the U.S. we have the National Register, but it is largely toothless, poorly run, and ludicrously underfunded.

[48202]

Here in the U.S. we have the National Register, but it is largely toothless, poorly run, and ludicrously underfunded.

The National Register of Historic Places is just a list.

The National Park Service owns, operates, and maintains historic sites and buildings.

[archfan]

By whom? These plaques get put up on private property because the then current owner agrees, but once the property is sold there is no requirement for the new owner[[s) to maintain the property and no other funding mechanism for anyone else to do it.

You could add a preservation easement, to make sure the house isn't demolished or significantly altered. But there isn't anything that says you have to maintain it.

[kathy2trips]

You could add a preservation easement, to make sure the house isn't demolished or significantly altered. But there isn't anything that says you have to maintain it.

That's very true. All one has to do is look around the city at significant structures crumbling before our eyes to support that fact. A plaque, however calls attention to the significance of the structure and, perhaps, raise awareness of just what Detroit has in the way of tangible, touchable history.