Indian Village, Detroit
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Indian Village is a historic affluent neighborhood located on Detroit's east side, bound to the north and south by Mack Avenue and East Jefferson Avenue, respectively, along the streets of Burns, Iroquois, and Seminole. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Many of the homes were built by prominent architects, such as Albert Kahn, Louis Kamper
and William Stratton, for some of the area's most prominent citizens, such as Edsel Ford
. A lot of homes are very large, with some over 12,000 square feet (1,100 m²). Many have a carriage house
, with some of those being larger than an average suburban home. Some of the houses also have large amounts of Pewabic Pottery
tiles.
Indian Village has a very active community organizations, including the Indian Village Association, Men's Garden Club & Women's Garden Club. The neighborhood hosts an annual Home & Garden Tour the first Saturday of June, a neighborhood yard sale in September, a holiday home tour in December, and many other community events. The neighborhood contains many historic homes including that of automotive entrepreneur Henry Leland, founder of Lincoln and Cadillac, who resided at 1052 Seminole St.
operates area public schools.
Residents are zoned to Nichols Elementary School, Marcus Garvey African Centered Academy K-8 for middle school, and Southeastern High School. On previous occasions Butzel Middle School served Indian Village.
Private schools serving Indian Village include the Benjamin E. Mays Male Academy, the Detroit Waldorf School and Detroit Friends School. Cornerstone Schools
formerly operated the K-5 Iroquois Campus in Indian Village.
Description
The district has a number of architecturally-significant homes built in the early 20th century. A number of the houses have been substantially restored, and many others well kept up. Bordering Indian Village to the west is West Village, with additional historic homes, townhouses and apartments.Many of the homes were built by prominent architects, such as Albert Kahn, Louis Kamper
Louis Kamper
Louis Kamper was an American architect, active in and aroundDetroit and Wayne County, Michigan, in the United States.-Project range:...
and William Stratton, for some of the area's most prominent citizens, such as Edsel Ford
Edsel Ford
Edsel Bryant Ford , son of Henry Ford, was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was president of Ford Motor Company from 1919 until his death in 1943.-Life and career:...
. A lot of homes are very large, with some over 12,000 square feet (1,100 m²). Many have a carriage house
Carriage house
A carriage house, also called remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack.In Great Britain the farm building was called a Cart Shed...
, with some of those being larger than an average suburban home. Some of the houses also have large amounts of Pewabic Pottery
Pewabic Pottery
Pewabic Pottery is a studio and school located in Detroit, Michigan and founded in 1903. The studio is known for its iridescent glazes, some of which grace notable buildings such as the Shedd Aquarium and Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Pewabic Pottery is on display...
tiles.
Indian Village has a very active community organizations, including the Indian Village Association, Men's Garden Club & Women's Garden Club. The neighborhood hosts an annual Home & Garden Tour the first Saturday of June, a neighborhood yard sale in September, a holiday home tour in December, and many other community events. The neighborhood contains many historic homes including that of automotive entrepreneur Henry Leland, founder of Lincoln and Cadillac, who resided at 1052 Seminole St.
Education
Detroit Public SchoolsDetroit Public Schools
Detroit Public Schools is a school district that covers all of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The student population of the Detroit Public Schools is about 65,971 , which is down about 9.7% from the previous school year. Detroit Public Charter Schools educate an additional 56,000...
operates area public schools.
Residents are zoned to Nichols Elementary School, Marcus Garvey African Centered Academy K-8 for middle school, and Southeastern High School. On previous occasions Butzel Middle School served Indian Village.
Private schools serving Indian Village include the Benjamin E. Mays Male Academy, the Detroit Waldorf School and Detroit Friends School. Cornerstone Schools
Cornerstone Schools (Michigan)
Cornerstone Schools is a system of private Christian schools in Detroit, Michigan. It has its administration and one school on one PreK-8 campus, the Nevada Campus....
formerly operated the K-5 Iroquois Campus in Indian Village.
Architecture
| Name | Image | Year | Location | Style | Architect | Notes |
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| John Beaumont House | 1911 | 1090 Seminole | Federal | Donaldson and Meier Donaldson and Meier Donaldson and Meier was an architectural firm based in Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1880 by John Donaldson and Henry J. Meier the firm produced a large and varied number of commissions in Detroit and southeastern Michigan... |
Founding member of law firm of Smith, Beaumont, and Harris. | |
| Arthur and Clara Buhl House | 1908 | 1116 Iroquois | Gothic, Tudor | John Scott | Member of the family whose fortune eventually built the Buhl Building Buhl Building The Buhl Building is a skyscraper and class-A office center in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Architect Wirt C. Rowland designed the Buhl in a Neo-Gothic style with Romanesque accents... . |
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| James Burgess Book Jr. House |  |
1911 | 8469 East Jefferson Ave. | Neo-Renaissance Neo-Renaissance Renaissance Revival is an all-encompassing designation that covers many 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Grecian nor Gothic but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes... |
Louis Kamper Louis Kamper Louis Kamper was an American architect, active in and aroundDetroit and Wayne County, Michigan, in the United States.-Project range:... |
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation... . |
| James Hamilton House |  |
1902 | 8325 East Jefferson Ave. | Tudor Revival | Stratton & Baldwin | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation... . |
| Bingley Fales House | 1907 | 1171 Seminole | Neo-Georgian Georgian architecture Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United... |
Chittenden & Kotting | At 15000 sq ft (1,393.5 m²), this house is the largest in Indian Village. | |
| William F. Harris House |  |
8335 East Jefferson Ave. | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation... . |
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| Christian Henry Hecker House | 1915 | 1763 Iroquois | MacFarlane, Maul, and Lentz | Son of Colonel Frank J. Hecker Frank J. Hecker Frank J. Hecker was an American railroad-car manufacturer from Detroit, Michigan-Early life:Frank J. Hecker was born in Freedom, Michigan on July 6, 1846. His family moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1859, where Frank was educated... . Christian Hecker served as president of the Hecker Insurance Co. |
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| George M. Holley | 1916 | 2152 Burns | William Van Tine | Founded the Holley Carburetor Company. | ||
| Hurlbut Memorial Gate Hurlbut Memorial Gate Hurlbut Memorial Gate is a monumental structure, long, high, and in depth, at the entry way to Water Works Park located at East Jefferson Avenue and Cadillac Boulevard in a historic area of Detroit, Michigan. It is named after Chauncey Hurlbut, a 19th century Detroit grocer, president of the... |
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1894 | E. Jefferson at Cadillac Blvd. | Beaux Arts | Brede & Mueller | Restored in 2007. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation... . |
| Jacob Carl Danziger House | 1911 | 1485 Burns | Bernard C. Wetzel | Danziger was treasurer and general manager of Detroit Motor Casting. | ||
| Robert Hupp House | 1911 | 1516 Iroquois Ave. | Prairie Style | George Valentine Pottle | Home of the auto baron who built the Huppmobile. | |
| Louis Kamper House | 1910 | 2150 Iroquois | Neo-Renaissance Neo-Renaissance Renaissance Revival is an all-encompassing designation that covers many 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Grecian nor Gothic but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes... |
Louis Kamper Louis Kamper Louis Kamper was an American architect, active in and aroundDetroit and Wayne County, Michigan, in the United States.-Project range:... |
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| Bernard G. Koether and Harriet Bowerman House |
1923 | 2921 Burns | Herman & Simons | Koether was GM executive, director of sales, advertising, and public relations. | ||
| Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church | 1926 | 8625 E. Jefferson Ave. | Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... |
Wirt C. Rowland Wirt C. Rowland Wirt Clinton Rowland was an American architect best known for his work in Detroit, Michigan.-Biography:... |
Founded in 1854. Built in 1926 by Wirt C. Rowland, the Church contains ornate carvings with corbel Corbel In architecture a corbel is a piece of stone jutting out of a wall to carry any superincumbent weight. A piece of timber projecting in the same way was called a "tassel" or a "bragger". The technique of corbelling, where rows of corbels deeply keyed inside a wall support a projecting wall or... s and shield Shield A shield is a type of personal armor, meant to intercept attacks, either by stopping projectiles such as arrows or redirecting a hit from a sword, mace or battle axe to the side of the shield-bearer.... s for each of the Apostles. |
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| Julius T. Melchers House | 1897 | 723 Seyburn | Colonial Revival Colonial Revival architecture The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own... |
Donaldson and Meier Donaldson and Meier Donaldson and Meier was an architectural firm based in Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1880 by John Donaldson and Henry J. Meier the firm produced a large and varied number of commissions in Detroit and southeastern Michigan... |
Home of Detroit sculptor Julius T. Melchers Julius Theodore Melchers Julius Theodore Melchers was a German born American sculptor and teacher who immigrated to the United States leaving Prussia after 1848 and resided in Detroit, Michigan after 1855 . During the Gilded Age, he became a "sculptor of great renown in the Detroit area." The Julius T... . The gable of the house is carved by Melchers. |
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| Henry Leland House | 1901 | 1052 Seminole St. | Tudor Revival | Unknown | Henry Leland Henry M. Leland Henry Martyn Leland was a machinist, inventor, engineer and automotive entrepreneur who founded the two premier American luxury marques, Cadillac and Lincoln. Retrieved December 30, 2008.... was an entrepreneur and machinist who founded Lincoln and Cadillac. |
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| Enoch Smith House aka "Ford Honeymoon House" |
1915 | 2171 Iroquois | Purchased by Edsel B. Ford in 1917. Edsel and Eleanor Ford resided in the house until 1921. Birthplace of Henry Ford II and Benson Ford. | |||
| Edwin Nelson House |  |
8311 East Jefferson Ave. | Federal | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation... . |
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| Pewabic Pottery Co. | 1907 | 10125 E. Jefferson Ave. | Tudor | Stratton & Baldwin | Mary Chase Perry Stratton Mary Chase Perry Stratton Mary Chase Perry Stratton was an American ceramic artist. She was a co-founder, along with Horace James Caulkins, of Pewabic Pottery, a form of ceramic art used to make architectural tiles.-Early years:... , the founder of Pewabic Pottery Pewabic Pottery Pewabic Pottery is a studio and school located in Detroit, Michigan and founded in 1903. The studio is known for its iridescent glazes, some of which grace notable buildings such as the Shedd Aquarium and Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Pewabic Pottery is on display... was married to one of the architects.List on the National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation... . |
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| Russell House | 1890 | 1075 Burns Ave. | Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston , designated a National Historic Landmark... |
Walter S. Russell | Moved to its present site in 1921, once located at Jefferson and Jos. Campau. | |
| Cornelius Ray House | 1910 | 1500 Seminole | French - American colonial | Louis Kamper Louis Kamper Louis Kamper was an American architect, active in and aroundDetroit and Wayne County, Michigan, in the United States.-Project range:... |
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| Mary S. Smith House |  |
8445 East Jefferson Ave. | Neo-Renaissance Neo-Renaissance Renaissance Revival is an all-encompassing designation that covers many 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Grecian nor Gothic but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes... |
List on the National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation... . |
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| Frederick K. Stearns House Frederick K. Stearns House The Frederick K. Stearns House is a home located at 8109 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, directly adjacent to the Arthur M. Parker House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.- Description :... |
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1902 | 8109 East Jefferson Ave. | Tudor Revival | Stratton & Baldwin | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation... . |
| Detroit Waldorf School | 1913 | 2555 Burns | Albert Kahn | |||
| Henry L. Walker House | 1899 | 1005 Iroquois | Colonial Revival Colonial Revival architecture The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own... |
Rogers and MacFarlane | ||
See also
- East Jefferson Avenue Residential TREast Jefferson Avenue Residential TRThe East Jefferson Avenue Residential District in Detroit, Michigan includes the Thematic Resource in the multiple property submission to the National Register of Historic Places which was approved on October 9, 1985. The structures are single-family and multiple-unit residential buildings with...
- Neighborhoods in DetroitNeighborhoods in DetroitThis article provides brief highlights of some of the city's many notable neighborhoods along with areas designated as historic districts in Detroit, Michigan by geographic area...
- Manoogian MansionManoogian MansionThe Manoogian Mansion is the official residence of the mayor of Detroit, Michigan. It is located at 9240 Dwight Street in the Berry Subdivision Historic District, on the city's east side, backing up to the Detroit River. It was built in 1928 for $300,000, but the owner lost the home during the...
- The traditional residence of the city mayor of Detroit, it is located near Indian Village. The home was given to the city in 1966.