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The Brush Park Historic District is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is bounded by Mack Avenue on the north, Woodward Avenue on the west, Beaubien Street on the east, and the Fisher Freeway on the south.
Established in 1860, Brush Park is one of the oldest historic neighborhoods in Detroit. Today it encompasses twenty-four blocks, bounded by Mack Avenue on the north, Woodward Avenue on the west, Beaubien Street on the east, and the Fisher Freeway on the south.
Brush Park was one of Detroit's most desirable neighborhoods from the 1860s to about 1900. Its boundaries are Edmund Place to the north; John R to the west; Brush to the east; and...
One neighborhood where the change is seen visibly each day is Brush Park. The neighborhood, established in 1860, contains 24 blocks bordered by Woodward Avenue, Mack Avenue, Beaubien Street, and...
The Brush Park Historic District is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan. Originally part of a French ribbon farm, Brush Park was developed beginning ...
During the 19th century, around 300 homes were built in Brush Park, including 70 Victorian mansions. However, the neighborhood began to decline in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the advent of streetcars and then automobiles allowed prosperous citizens to live farther from downtown.
Just north of downtown Detroit and east of Woodward, the Brush Park neighborhood was home to some of the city’s wealthiest families from the late 1800s and into the 1900s, who built hundreds of...