Uploads from Equinox27, tagged detroit

86 Eliot Street, "Prismatic Club," Brush Park, GONE!

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:20:08 -0800

Equinox27 posted a photo:

This is a house on the edge of Brush Park that I had never heard of. The black and white shot is from the collection of PlacePromo, www.placepromo.com/display.php?id=3129&built=&add... from 1976. I found the approximate location on Bing and noticed that it is similar in style to the one in that block that is still there. Then, I found this clipping about some of it's history, being left in Levi Barbour's will to the Prismatic Club for their use. Don't know if there is any more information out there about this place. It certainly was another of Brush Park's great houses!

PlacePromo lists the house's architect as Joseph E. Mills and the date of construction as 1895.

64 Edmund Pl. Stoddard House, Brush Park, Detroit, 2003

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:53:52 -0800

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The facade of the building on the right can be seen in the photo below from 1880, the house is visible just to the right of the biggest tree. A row of the houses on the left side are still on Edmund Place, one of the largest sections of extant houses left in Brush Park. In the distance here is the Lucien Moore house, now reconstructed by HGTV.

Here it is in 1976:
www.flickr.com/photos/74359763@N02/6731947621/

Starlight Temple of Truth, Brush & Watson Streets

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:49:21 -0800

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This burned out set of buildings was torn down a while back but I am not sure about the buildings on the left. I think the one on the corner was a period gas station. Here is the house before it burned:
www.flickr.com/photos/17971010@N06/4088520034/in/photostr...

Behind it is the Starlight Temple of Truth, which apparently is a wreck inside:
www.flickr.com/photos/49499216@N04/5410657621/

312 Watson Street house, Detroit

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:28:49 -0800

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This is the house directly across from Kevin Wickenheiser's in Brush Park. To the left you can see the burnout on Brush Street, now gone, and on the right, the new condominiums.

For a front view see this shot by smooveb:
www.flickr.com/photos/kbauman/2222087886/in/set-721576000...

And an update on this side from senor miller:
www.flickr.com/photos/dirtysouth/3127199848/in/set-721576...

And a discussion here on DetroitYES!
www.detroityes.com/mb/showthread.php?t=4376

Flynn House, Edmund Place, Detroit

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:49:35 -0800

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This is the only house on Edmund Place in Brush Park that is still open to the elements. The neighbor to the west here is the Glover House which is supposed to become the Brush Park Conservatory. My guess is this one gets bulldozed.

Craftsman style house in Brush Park, Detroit 2007

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:35:43 -0800

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This is one of the later houses built in Brush Park during it's heyday. It is definitely post Victorian but I know nothing of it's history. As far as I know it's still standing, at least it shows up on the satellite view. There are more preserved houses right next to it and across the street. This is in the northern part of the neighborhood at 304 Erskine Street. The commercial building in the distance with the yellow sign is the Gause's Party Store. Maybe they put the Beaubien Party Store down on Beaubien out of business!

I have earlier pictures of this house taken in 2001 which show a very plain side view and some holes in the roof.

269 Winder Street, Brush Park, Detroit

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:34:46 -0800

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This one looked like it was headed directly for a glorious restoration. The Mansard roof was tarped and the appropriate signage erected declaring a bright future. What happened? Same old, same old!

This website shows a big blank spot where it stood, along with a fascinating sequence chronicling the condition of the various tarps:
fadeddetroit.blogspot.com/2010/01/brush-park-failure-269-...

111 Watson Street, Brush Park, Detroit

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:27:08 -0800

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This was taken on our first trip to Brush Park, Detroit in 2001. The house was soon torn down though I believe the building behind it is still standing. A picture of this house before it experienced full frontal collapse can be seen here:
www.detroityes.com/gild/05bp-roundhouse.htm

Notice the Dutch style gables, unusual touches on a fantastic house.

Then there's this:
www.detroitfunk.com/?p=3045

Originally the home of lumber magnate, Robert C. Faulconer on the corner of John R and Watson Streets. A quote from the Detroit Free Press in 1891 reports:

"It is an attractive house from the exterior but the feature which strikes one most conspicuously is the fact that proportions rather than details characterize the dwelling. It is exceeding spacious, having been built for room and comfort rather than outside beauty which is noticeable in many homes, the interior of which may be very inconveniently arranged.
Mr Falconer's house was designed by Hess and Raseman and was built about three years ago. (1888) It is what is known as the Elizabethan style of architecture, with large Dutch gables. It is red brick with brown stone trimmings and the bay windows and other exterior woodwork are painted black."

SKIP 3966 Trumbull Ave, Detroit

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:10:01 -0800

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In the Woodbridge Neighborhood Historic District. Apparently it was a hospital in the 1950's and 60's and is reported to be the model for the Addam's Family house!

Alfred Street, Brush Park, Detroit, 1881

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:23:14 -0800

Equinox27 posted a photo:

The Italianate to the left, 83 Alfred St is the Hodge-Ash house, the tall one in the middle is George Jerome House. The James V. Campbell residence in the middle is the only survivor from this picture. The house on the far right that is barely showing with the Mansard roof is next to the two surviving "Mansard twins" that are also presently mothballed.

This picture was stitched together from two views taken at the same time that are in the Burton Collection at the Detroit Library. The left side of the Hodge house was missing in the picture and was recreated using another old but unclear real estate photo from a newspaper clipping. I wanted to get as much of the original neighborhood in the shot as possible.
quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=dpa1ic;select1...

James V. Campbell House at 261 Alfred Street

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:24:37 -0800

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One of the survivors on Alfred Street in Brush Park, Detroit. This house was stripped of it's Italianate ornamentation long ago and almost was lost. Recently it was mothballed by the city to be restored at a later date.

Compare the detailing left under the eaves with what you can see in Marty's view and in the 1881 view. All that good stuff gone!

One puzzle I'm having a little trouble with is why the chimneys on my 2001 view show up in the back and on the others they are on the sides. Perhaps there were four chimneys that weren't visible from the front in some views and the ones on the side disappeared some time in the nineties?

291 Erskine Street, Brush Park, Detroit 2007

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:17:16 -0800

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These two houses are part of the Erskine Street section of Brush Park that is still fairly intact and are up for renovation. From the Bing satellite map below you can see them in the middle. The one on the left is a latecomer to the Brush Park neighborhood with it's Arts and Crafts style architecture. It is also so deteriorated (as can be seen from above) that one wonders if any kind of restoration is likely.

UPDATE: After a little research I find that the house on the left is less than a shell and the one on the right is no more. So much for dreams of renovation!
fadeddetroit.blogspot.com/2010/01/another-loss-291-erskin...

Just found this, the house to the right of the one on the right that is also gone:
www.flickr.com/photos/17971010@N06/4115402688/in/set-7215...

Beaubien Party Store (side) ...the party continues

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:27:11 -0800

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Please take note of the tree growing inside the window. That is not a ficus that someone brought home from the office. It is naturally growing and self-sustaining, apparently living off the rotted wooden floor!

Beaubien Party Store, 2007

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:28:57 -0800

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From the location and architecture, I imagine this was actually built as a storefront somewhere around the turn of the century. Though located on Beaubien Street in Detroit's Brush Park neighborhood, it was also unlikely constructed as the Beaubien Party Store! Someone (Creighton Realty) thinks that it has a future in the new Brush Park but, given the complete collapse of the roof, I doubt that it is going to happen. As comparison shots, nothing much has changed in the six years here except the appearance of a sheet of black plastic that must be all of which remains from the fence surrounding the place in the satellite view. Very useful, I am sure.

Ransom Gillis House, 2007 Update

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:56:39 -0800

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One of the most remarkable houses in Brush Park, Detroit. The Ransom Gillis house has quite a history and has been photographed many times in various states of decay. I never saw it until the signature tower had fallen off and I assumed it would soon be rubble. At the last minute it was rescued and sealed up to prevent further decay. Though not like it was when new, it at least will remain on the same location it has occupied for over a hundred years.

For a book written by John Kossik on the history of the Ransom Gillis house:
www.amazon.com/63-Alfred-Street-Capitalism-Venetian/dp/14...

Brush Park, Detroit 2001

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:48:18 -0700

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The first time I went to Brush Park in 2001, this place was still standing across from the police station. The next visit it was gone. I have posted these buildings separately but had forgotten that they were next to each other till I saw a pic of them here taken in 2003:
www.flickr.com/photos/37640374@N04/3651818330/in/set-7215...
I then put them back together in photoshop.

During the early twentieth century storefronts were added to many of the old mansions in Brush Park as they were refashioned from palaces to everyday, functional buildings.

Here is a shot from smartee_martee:
www.flickr.com/photos/smartee_martee/264103575/in/set-721...

And this shows the back of the buildings in 2003 (from hoteldennis):
www.flickr.com/photos/37640374@N04/3651023303/in/set-7215...

And the Sanborn maps of these two plus the house that used to be beside this one on Alfred:
img155.imageshack.us/img155/775/strassburghouse.png

3966 Trumbull Ave Mansard

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:55:47 -0700

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This house is pretty well known in Detroit but I didn't run across it till about our fourth trip there.

Check this out: www.flickr.com/photos/71288712@N00/376955986/

and this:

www.flickr.com/photos/16939591@N04/2191128534/

Ferry Street, Detroit, 2002

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:06:58 -0700

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A restoration under progress on an abandoned building in the Ferry Street area of Detroit.

Georges MKT BASKET, Brush Park, Detroit

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:32:39 -0800

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Recently themaskedman55 posted a shot of the "Mansard Twins" that showed this familiar landmark store on the corner of Alfred and Brush Streets was gone.
www.flickr.com/photos/34700001@N06/6704242193/in/photostream

Old photos suggest this store, as well as the one across the street, were an active hub in the neighborhood. A photo taken in the Forties published in LIFE magazine shows signs that say "CUT RATE DRUG STORE."

For views of this market in the nineties, see Bruce Harness' photos here:

www.flickr.com/photos/34700001@N06/6322765072/
www.flickr.com/photos/34700001@N06/6322239799/

From there you can go to his website and read about his experiences in photographing Brush Park.

Granwood Apartments, Detroit

nobody@flickr.com (Equinox27) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:08:12 -0700

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One of the many abandoned apartment buildings in Detroit. I was very taken with the landscaping of this one!