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
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
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
Ben Carson Childhood Home, Detroit, Michigan
Ben Carson Childhood Home, Detroit, Michigan, (Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. Born September 18, 1951) is an American neurosurgeon, author, and politician who is the 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, under the Trump Administration. Prior to his cabinet position, he was a candidate for President of the United States in Read More
Albert Kahn House, Detroit, Michigan
The Albert Kahn House is located at 208 Mack Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Brush Park district. It is currently the headquarters of the Detroit Urban League. In 1906, architect Albert Kahn built the home for his personal use in Brush Park. Albert Kahn (March 21, 1869 – December 8, 1942) was the foremost American industrial architect of his day. He is sometimes called the “architect of Detroit”.[ Albert Read More