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The Ransom Gillis House brought to Detroit the Venetian Gothic style, made popular by John Ruskin's book The Stones of Venice. [18] The centerpiece of the structure is the turret situated in the front left corner, the circumference of which is accented by five rows of tiles of simple geometric designs in hues of bright blue, red, yellow, and brown.
The mansion was built in 1928 at the cost of $300,000 ($5.32 million in 2024).The original owner lost the home during the Great Depression and it sat vacant until Alex Manoogian, founder of the Masco company, purchased the home at an auction in 1939 for a mere $25,000 ($0.55 million in 2024).
The William H. Wells House is a two-and-one-half-story, 18,000 square feet [3] Romanesque Revival mansion, built of coursed, rock-face stone. [5] The house is built on an irregular plan with an asymmetrical, picturesque composition. [5]
The 250-acre compound borders 2 million acres of national forest and includes a main house, two guest houses, two apartments, a western town center complete with a sheriff's office, a car barn, a ...
David Whitney Jr., c. 1891. David Whitney Jr. was born in 1830 in Watertown, Massachusetts. [8] Whitney made his millions in Massachusetts as a lumber baron. He moved to Detroit from Lowell (where he had established himself as a lumber baron) in 1857, at the young age of twenty-seven.
Here are six abandoned historic homes for sale that you can buy right now. ... Southern Victorian mansion back to its ... A Detroit man bought an abandoned house in the city for $2,100 and spent 9 ...
Detroit is edging dangerously close to bankruptcy, and the most obvious sign of its dramatic financial downfall lies in the ramshackle, abandoned homes that dot its neighborhoods. Michigan Gov ...
The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House is a mansion located at 1100 Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe Shores, northeast of Detroit, Michigan; it stands on the site known as "Gaukler Point", on the shore of Lake St. Clair. The house became the new residence of the Edsel and Eleanor Ford family in 1928.