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Palmer Park is a 296-acre (120 ha) public park next to Detroit, Michigan's Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District. It is named for U.S. Senator Thomas Witherell Palmer , who initially created the park when he donated 140-acre (57 ha) for a city park in 1893 [ 1 ] on the condition that the virgin forest be preserved. [ 3 ]
The land that this historic district sits on, like the adjacent Palmer Park and nearby Palmer Woods Historic District, was once the estate of Thomas W. Palmer, a wealthy Detroiter and one-time US Senator. [3] Palmer had intended to develop this area into a subdivision, but died in 1913 before bringing the idea to fruition.
Palmer Park Area Palmer Woods sits on land originally owned by Thomas W. Palmer , a prominent citizen of 19th-century Detroit and a United States Senator. The neighborhood was platted in the mid-1910s, and most of the homes were constructed between about 1917 and 1929.
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1.2.2 People for Palmer Park. 1.2.3 Palmer Park Golf Course. 1.3 Lake Frances. 1.4 Merrill Humane Fountain. 1.5 Palmer Log Cabin. ... Talk: Palmer Park (Detroit) Add ...
The northern area includes the Detroit Golf Club and neighborhoods which surround the main campus of the University of Detroit Mercy: [1] Pilgrim Village; Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District; and the Palmer Woods Historic District. Pilgrim Village, developed in the 1920s, is bounded by Livernois, Idaho, Puritan and Fenkell.
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The Palmer Woods Historic District is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan, bounded by Seven Mile Road, Woodward Avenue, and Strathcona Drive.There are approximately 295 homes in the 188-acre (0.76 km 2) district, [2] which is between the City of Highland Park in Wayne County and the City of Ferndale in Oakland County. [3]