Homes in Indian Village

971 Burns

From 1907 to 1918, William R. Kales and his wife Alice Gray lived in this home. He was president of Kales Stamping and of the Whitehead and Kales Steel Warehouse. He was also the owner of the Kales Building near Campus Martius, the building that Kresge left after they built their impressive headquarters in downtown Detroit.

982 Burns

Architect: Smith, Hinchman & Grylls
Date of Construction: 1905
Built for Frederick T. Ducharme

1012 Burns

Architects: Grylls and Gies
Date of Construction: 1906
Style: Georgian
This home was built for Percy D. Dwight.

1075 Burns

Architect: Walter S. Russel
Date of Constructio0n: 1890
Style: Richardson Romanesque

The home was originally built in 1890 at 2763 East Jefferson Avenue and moved to its present location thirty years later. Walter S. Russell and his wife, Mary E. Romney, lived in this home from 1920 through 1935. He was president of the Russel Wheel & Foundry, a firm that manufactured wheels for railroad cars.

1441 Burns

Hiram Walker II and his wife Elsa Stroh, lived in this home from 1918 to 1922. He was the son of one of the founders of the distillery, located in Windsor that bears his surname. William Murphy and his wife Laura M. Hayward lived in this home from 1923 to 1928. He worked with Henry Leland in organizing the Cadillac Motor Car Company, built the additions to the Penobscot Building and cooperated with Horace Dodge in raising money for Orchestra Hall on Woodward.

1485 Burns

Architect and builder: Bernard C. Wetzel
Date of Construction: 1911

This mansion was erected for Jacob Carl Danziger who was treasurer and general manager of the Detroit Motor Casting Company.

1750 Burns

This was the residence of William R. Kales and his wife Alice Gray from 1918 to 1946.

2152 Burns

Architect: William Van Tine
Date of Construction: 1916

This home was build for George M. Holley, owner of the Holley Carburetor Company.

2224 Burns

George Pierrot and his wife Helen Gourlie Peck lived in this impressive home from 1943 through 1980. He was a newspaperman, a TV personality and producer of the well-known World Adventure Series television program.

2485 Burns

Architect: Maurice V. Rogers
Date of Construction: 1930

2555 Burns

Architect: Albert Kahn
Date of Construction: 1913
Style: English Domestic Revival. This style was briefly popular in England shortly after the turn of the last century.
This was built as Waldorf School but became Liggett School.

2921 Burns

Architects: Herman and Simons
Date of construction: 1923
This home was built for Bernard G. Koether and his wife, Harriet Bowerman. He was the director of sales, public relations and advertising for General Motors.

3401 Burns

Joseph Muer, the founder of the very popular Joe Muer's Restaurant formerly on
East Gratiot, lived in this home with his wife Susie Mahlberg from 1924 through 1941.

3453 Burns

This home was the residence of Wilbur M. Brucker who served as governor of Michigan in 1934 and 1935 and then later served as President Eisenhower's Secretary of the Army.

1005 Iroquois

Architect: Rogers and MacFarlane
Date of Construction: 1899
Style: Colonial Revival

This home was built for Henry L. Walker, a member of the Hiram Walker family, well known for their production of spiritus beverages in Windsor.

1020 Iroquois

Architect: Chittenden and Kotting
Date of Construction: 1913
Style: Continental

This home was built for a rich widow, Mary G. Edgar, who was known for her collection of French furniture. Her son had Albert Kahn design a huge home for him in Grosse Pointe but he then built a town house on Iroquois just a few doors from his mother's mansion.

1037 Iroquois

From 1903 through 1938, this was the residence of Francis McMath and his wife Josephine Cook. He was president of the Canadian Bridge Company, the firm that erected the Ambassador Bridge.

1116 Iroquois

Architect: John Scott
Date of Construction: 1909
Style: Gothic and Tudor

This home was built for Arthur and Clara Buhl, Detroit business people who later built the impressive Buhl Building in downtown Detroit. Arthur Buhl earned his fortune as a wholesale hardware merchant.

1483 Iroquois

Richard Hudson Webber and his wife, Eloise C. Jenks, lived in this home from 1915 through 1924. He served as president of the
J. L. Hudson Department Store.

1490 Iroquois

This home was the residence from 1915 to 1917 of Edwin Denby and his wife, Marion Barret Thurber. He served as a Detroit representative in Congress, was president of the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and served as President Warren Gamiel Harding's Secretary of the Navy.

1516 Iroquois

Thomas Neal and his wife Elizabeth May Davies lived in this home from 1914 to 1940. He served as chairman and president of General Motors.

1517 Iroquois

Architect: George Valentine Pottle
Date of Construction: 1911
Style: Prairie style with Oriental influences. This is very rare in Detroit

This home was built for the auto baron, Robert Hupp who created and owned the Hupp Motor Company, producers of the Huppmobile.

1723 Iroquois

This home was built in 1916 by John Dodge and his wife Matilda Rausch Dodge as a wedding gift for their daughter, Winifred Dodge when she married William Gray.

1750 Iroquois

Built for Standish and Lotta E. Boyer. He was president of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company from 1915 through 1933.

1744 Seminole

Harley J. Earl and his wife Sue Carpenter lived in this home in 1932 and 1933. He was director of design and styling for General Motors

1763 Iroquois

Architects: MacFarlane, Maul and Lentz
Date of Construction: 1915

This home was built for Christian Henry Hecker, the son of Colonel Hecker, the lumber baron whose mansion stands on Woodward.

1801 Iroquois

Alvan H. McCauley and his wife Estelle Castleman Littlejohn lived in this home from 1914 through 1931. He was president of the then very successful Packard Motor Car Company.

2105 Iroquois

Architect: Louis Kamper
Date of construction: 1917
Style: French Classicism in the Beaux-Arts Classical tradition

The well-known Detroit architect Louis Kamper built this home for himself and for his wife Emile Kling Kemper. He designed the Book Building, the Book Tower and the Book Cadillac Hotel on Washington Boulevard as well as the3 Water Board Building.

2171 Iroquois

Date of construction: 1915
Architect: Unknown to me

This home was built for Enoch Smith, a Detroit banker. It was purchased in 1917 by Edsel Ford and was used as a honeymoon cottage after he married to Eleanor Clay. They lived in this mansion until their impressive Grosse Pointe home was completed. Henry Ford II and Benson Ford were born while Edsel and his wife lived here in Indian Village.

2250 Iroquois

This was the residence, from 1921 to 1925, of Ray A. Graham and his wife Eugenia Winston. He was one of the founders of the Graham Paige Automobile Company and the Graham Brothers Truck Company.

2475 Iroquois

2501 Iroquois

Architect: Leonard B. Willeke
Date of Construction: 1917
Architect for Garden: Jens Jensen

From 1919 to 1939, this home was the residence of Ernest C. Kansler and his wife Josephine Clay who was the sister of Edsel Ford's spouse. Kansler worked at the Ford Motor Company and at the Guardian Bank before its failure during the Depression.

2505 Iroquois

Architect: Leonard B. Willeke
Date of construction: 1917

Built for Roscoe B. Jackson and his wife Louise A. Webber. He was president of the Hudson Motor Car Company from 1918 to 1929.

2910 Iroquois

Architect: Smith, Hinchman & Grylls
Date of Construction: 1915

This home was apparently commissio0ned by Charles Johnson, who helped found Pewabic Pottery as a wedding gift for his daughter.

2950 Iroquois

This home was built from Warren Scripps Booth and his wife Alice Sedgwick Newcomb. This is the Booth of the Scripps-Booth newspaper chain.

East Jefferson and Parker

Architects: William Buck Stratton and Baldwin
Date of Construction: 1902
Style: Tudor

This home was built for James Hamilton.

8100 East Jefferson - Alden Park Towers

Architect: Unknown to me
Date of Construction: 1923
Style: Tudor with limestone crenellations.

8162 East Jefferson

Eddie Rickenbacker lived in this home from 1921 through 1928. He was a flying ace in World War I, vice-president of Rickenbacker Motors and then, later, president of Eastern Airlines.

8209 East Jefferson

Architect: William Buck Stratton and Baldwin
Date of Construction: 1902
Style: English Arts and Crafts design with a blend of medieval tradition with the timbering

This home was built for the successful pharmaceutical entrepreneur and one-time owner of the Detroit Wolverine's baseball team in the National League, Frederick K. Stearns.

8469 East Jefferson at Burns

Architect: Louis Kemper
Date of Construction: 1911
Style: Renaissance Revival with heavy borrowing from the architecture of the Petit Trianon at Versailles.

This was built for James Burgess Book, the developer who promoted Washington Boulevard with the Book-Cadillac Hotel, the Book Tower and the Book Building.

8525 East Jefferson at the intersection with Burns Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church

Architect: Wirt Rowland of the Smith, Hinchman and Grylls firm
Date of construction: 1925
Style: Neo-Gothic
9000 East Jefferson Jeffersonian Apartments
Architects: Giffels and Rossetti
Date of Construction: 1965
Style: Economical modern.

10125 East Jefferson Pewabic Pottery Company

Architect: William Buck Stratton and Baldwin
Date of Construction: 1907
Style: English or Kentish cottage

10100 East Jefferson at Marquette - Hurlburt Memorial Gate in Waterworks Park

10401 East Jefferson - Hannan Memorial YMCA

1022 Seminole

Architect: Albert Kahn
Date of construction: 1909
Style: Georgian Revival

This home was built for Hugh and Frances Houser Charmers. Charmers headed the Thomas-Detroit automobile firm and then later, headed his own auto production company that was merged to help form the Chrysler Corporation in the mid to late 1920s.

1027 Seminole

Architect: Walter MacFarlane
Date of construction: 1898
Style: Clapboard home
This home was constructed for Dr. Burt Shurley.

1039 Seminole

Architect: William Buck Stratton
Date of Construction: 1901
Built for Wayland Stearns of the Stearns Drug Company

1052 Seminole

In 1931 and 1932, this was the residence of Henry M. Leland, the innovative engineer and entrepreneur who founded the Cadillac and Lincoln Motor Car Companies.

1090 Seminole

Architects: Donaldson and Meier
Date of Construction: 1911
Style: Classical Federal style

This home was built for the Detroit attorney, John Beaumont.

1475 Seminole

From 1918 to 1944, this was the home of William B. Mayo and his spouse, Susan H. Dana. He was the chief engineer of the Ford Motor Company and later president of the Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Transit Company, the firm that owned the two most famous Great Lakes passenger steamers: The North American and the South American.

1480 Seminole

Architects: Chitttenden and Kotting
Date of construction: Unknown to me
Style: German and Dutch architectural influences are evident

This impressive home was built for Fritz Goebel who headed the Goebel Brewing Company.

1500 Seminole

Architect: Louis Kemper
Date of Construction: 1910
Style: French Classicism with some touches of American colonial architecture

This home was built for Cornelius Ray.

1515 Seminole

In 1933, Frank Murphy lived in this home. After earning his undergraduate and law degrees in Ann Arbor, he served as a Recorder's Court Judge in Detroit and was subsequently elected mayor of the city. President Roosevelt appointed him to be the Governor or of the Philippine Islands when they were a US colony and then later the US Supreme Court where he served with distinction.

1723 Seminole

Architect Smith, Hinchman & Grylls
Date of Construction: 1916

Built for John Dodge and his wife Matilda Dodge Wilson. He was one of the original investors in the successful Ford Motor Company and one of the founders of the Dodge Motor Car Co9mpany but died in 1920.

1751 Seminole

1771 Seminole

Architect: Chittenden & Kotting
Date of Construction: 1907
Style: Neo-Georgian

Built for Bingley Fales and Capt. John Poole