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The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House is a mansion located at 1100 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 1928.
The manor house was at the east end of the village, near the church and mill; the present Wilsford Manor is a three-bay brick house from the early 19th century. [ 10 ] In the 13th century, the Earls of Hereford subinfeudated part of their estate, which came into the Dauntsey family whose descendants include Sir John Dauntsey (d.1391), soldier ...
The Thomas H. Hoatson House (now known as the Laurium Manor Inn) is a house located at 320 Tamarack Street in Laurium, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1] At 13,000 square feet (1,200 m 2), it is the largest mansion in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. [2]
When the 1964 Civil Rights Act opened up other resorts in many states to African-Americans, Idlewild's boomtown period subsided. Though not quite a "ghost town" as claimed in the book Ghost Towns of Michigan, Chapter 7, [5] [6] the population was under 1,000 in 2019, [7] and numerous buildings were vacant.
The Watervale Historic District is a resort, originally constructed as a lumber camp, located at 975-1422 Watervale Road on the shore of Lower Herring Lake in Blaine Township, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1991 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [1]
Lake House is an Elizabethan country house dating from 1578, in Wilsford cum Lake in Wiltshire, England, about 7 miles (11 km) north of Salisbury. It is a Grade I listed building. [1] The gardens are Grade II listed in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. [2]
The manor homes and city seats were designed by prominent architects of the day and decorated with antiquities, furniture, and works of art from the world over. Many of the wealthy had undertaken grand tours of Europe, during which they admired the estates of the nobility. Seeing themselves as their American equivalent, they wished to emulate ...
With an elevation of 1,201 feet, Pine Knob is the second-highest ski resort in Southeast Michigan, behind only Alpine Valley Ski Area in White Lake. [3] It is home to Pine Knob Ski Resort, Pine Knob Music Theater, Pine Knob Mansion, Pine Knob Golf Club, as well as residential homes. Pine Knob Ski Resort and Music Theatre, Sashabaw Road entrance.