The Edward Loranger House is a private residence located at 7211 South Stoney Creek Road in Frenchtown Charter Township in Monroe County, Michigan. The house is significant as one of the oldest authentic structures in Michigan having undergone very little modifications since it was first built.Edward Loranger was born in Trois-Rivières, Canada in 1796. He Read More
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The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan
The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House is a mansion located on 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 1929. Edsel Ford Read More
Edison Home, West Orange, New Jersey
Edison Home, Main St, West Orange, NJ, Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America’s greatest inventor. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light Read More
Croul–Palms House, Detroit, Michigan
The Croul–Palms House is a private residence located at 1394 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. The house is named after its first two owners, Jerome Croul and Francis Palms. In 1881, Jerome Croul commissioned William Scott to build this house at a cost of $25,000. Croul was a successful merchant of woolens and sheepskins, Read More
Col. Frank J. Hecker House, Detroit, Michigan
The Col. Frank J. Hecker House is one of the remaining handful of elegant mansions that once lined Woodward Avenue, and has stayed mostly unchanged for nearly 120 years as the city has wildly change around it. The mansion was built for one of Detroit’s most notable 19th century citizens, Col. Frank Joseph Hecker. Hecker Read More
Chrysler Childhood Home, Ellis, Kansas
Chrysler boyhood home, 102 W. 10th St. Ellis, Kansas. Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American automotive industry executive and founder of Chrysler Corporation, now a part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Chrysler was born in Wamego, Kansas, the son of Anna Maria (née Breymann) and Henry Chrysler. He grew Read More
Capone House, Miami, Florida
Al Capone purchased this Miami mansion in 1928 for just $40,000. The home boasts 100 feet of waterfront property. Born Alphonse Gabriel Capone in 1899 sometimes known by the nickname “Scarface”, was an American mobster, crime boss, and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. Read More
Tom Brady Home, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Brady Home, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. (born August 3, 1977) is an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He is one of only two players to win five Super Bowls (the other being defensive player Charles Haley) and the only player to win Read More
Biddle House, Mackinac Island, Michigan
The Biddle House is a historic house and fur trade shop space, built before 1800 on Market Street on Mackinac Island in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is part of Mackinac Island State Park. The origins of the Biddle House are unknown, but its New France architectural lines and heritage indicate that it was built about 1780, at the time of the first settlement Read More
Benjamin Siegel Home, Detroit, Michigan
Benjamin Siegel Home 150 West Boston Boulevard in the Boston-Edison Neighborhood Benjamin Siegel, born in Germany and educated in the elementary and secondary schools of Mannheim, came to the United States in 1876. He began his employment by working in or managing a merchandise store in Selma, Alabama. He later did similar work in retail Read More