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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.
Edsel was the only son of Ford Motor Co. founder Henry Ford and his wife, Clara. Edsel lived at the lakeside estate with his wife, Eleanor, and their children beginning in 1928.
Many prominent Detroiters, members of the Ford family, including Edsel Ford (son of Henry Ford) and his wife, Eleanor Clay Ford, as well as Henry Ford II (grandson of Henry Ford), have chosen to reside in Grosse Pointe. The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, at 1100 Lake Shore Drive, is open to the public for guided tours.
The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House is now open to the public. [28] Located on 87 acres (35.2 ha), the house has an excellent collection of the Fords' original antiques and art, and the historical landscape grounds on the lakefront.
GROSSE POINTE SHORES, Mich. (AP) -- The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House kept secret its 2013 sale of an oil painting by French post-impressionist Paul Cezanne to a private buyer for $100 million to ...
Edsel Ford family home on Lake St. Clair. Benson Ford was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Eleanor Clay Ford and Edsel Ford on July 20, 1919. He, his brothers Henry II and William, and sister Josephine, grew up in Indian Village, and at the Ford's Gaukler Point estate in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, on Lake St. Clair.
A look back in the Free Press archives to 1957 when Ford introduced the Edsel to fanfare. Carbuyers weren't impressed.
Edsel and Eleanor Ford House† 1100 Lakeshore Drive Grosse Pointe Shores: February 7, 1977: Fractional School District No. 4 Schoolhouse: 52650 Van Dyke Utica: April 20, 1989: General Motors Technical Center† Bounded by 12 Mile, Mound, and Chicago Roads and Van Dyke Avenue Warren: January 17, 2002: Grace Episcopal Church