As a native Detroiter, and currently employed as a plumber's helper. I have witnessed the demise of Detroit in the late 80's and 90's. I have since worked on some pretty amazing transformations. one in the Boston-Edison district, and another in Palmer Park area, and several in Mexican Village. These home where stately (can see in the craftsmanship) and the renovations where beautiful. It has been quite inspiring to work on those projects. And I hope to do more.
I have a question for you that I hope you can answer. I often work in Detroit in animal control. Often, I see these metal boxes with siren-like light bulbs on them that are attached to each home. Can you tell me what they are and what their purpose is? Thank you!
Me to! Used to just keep them semi functional and now total reheb's .. I remember in the 80's the police station in that hood was like Fort Apache Detroit .. shootings, crime, vacant houses falling apart, ran over to Trumbull in the same condition, all nice now old houses being revamped and new construction
Their building them for the foreigners that will buy them, because Americans can't afford them. And Foreigner will rule over Americans like kings and surfers because they were to stupid to protect their country from the nonviolent economic invasion of their country.
I drove through the Brush Park area last weekend and my jaw hit the floor at how much development is going on right now. It's been many years since I have been downtown in Detroit and I couldn't believe the turnaround that city has made! Brush Park looks fantastic! People are actually walking around, riding bikes and enjoying the urban living that has been absent for so many decades in the MotorCity! You should cover Grosse Pointe where all the auto giants built there palaces!
Detroit is one of America's forgotten jewels. Loved visiting Detroit. The architecture and the materials used to build is top notched beautiful. America owes Detroit, the car industry changed our lives. Much respect.🙏🏾💚
Michael Farrell, a professor of art history, bought The Elisha Taylor/Art House, a dilapidated home in 1981 for $65,000 with the help of friends. He made the ambitious decision to live in the home while restoring it and turning it into a center for art lectures and tours.
I’m not American. I’m an Aussie and find it very sad to have seen what happened to this development. I’ve seen tv shows showing what happened to Detroit when the car industry abandoned the city. There were seeds of hope though- 10- 15 years ago. People particularly artists had moved in to certain areas slowly renovating, community gardens etc. building communities. Our Queensland Premier back in the 60s to the 80s ruled like a dictator . He was determined to make our capital city into a modern city and which skyscrapers to rival the southern cities. He had destroyed almost ALL of our historic buildings. When the pressure from the people became too much with protests he got his favourite builders who’d started coming in the middle of the night using a huge wrecking ball. An absolute travesty. Think there are 3 historic sandstone buildings left.
At the beginning of the video this guys asked "So what happened?". The 1967 Detroit Riot is what happened! After those riots happened everything changed, and not for the better might I add because all it did was destroy a once beautiful city and caused a huge amount of people either into the Suburbs or to another city or state as the city was considered unsafe. I've watched TONS of history videos on Detroit and how it was The Powerhouse of America and what started out our love affair to the automobile and the open road. The sad shame with all of this is that Detroit will never be what it once was, as much as I personally hope that once day it will...it just won't happen. The amount of manufacturing going on in Detroit and Flint was something I don't see happening like that ever again as EVERYTHING has been off shored to China. Today is October 31st 2022 and November 8th 2022 is the day YOU get to decide what path this country takes. Before you vote ASK YOURSELF if you were doing better 2 years ago! If you have to get a note pad and pen and literally write down what was better and what is not better. The price of food, gasoline, heating oil, natural gas, rent, interest rates on your mortgage and credit cards, your job status, regular everyday stuff like that. THIS ELECTION IS IMPORTANT!!! The Democrats' are hell bent on getting rid of OIL...ALL OF IT!!! We WILL FREEZE if they keep playing this game as Newsweek said October 26th 2022 at 11:23am EST " Diesel Shortage Update as Prices Skyrocket Over Fears Supply Could Run Out" "New government data released on Wednesday show that diesel supplies are "unacceptably low," as National Economic Council Director Brian Deese told Bloomberg TV on Wednesday. According to the Energy Information Administration, the U.S. has now 25 days left of diesel supply, its lowest level since 2008.". I was never a fan of Trump until 2 years into his term and I started seeing things change for the better, I LIVE IN CANADA and YES whatever happens to you guys happens to us up here!! My wage was the same and POOF I could buy more! GAS WAS THE CHEAPEST SINCE 2004!!! It's up to all of you on who and why you vote BUT PLEASE REALLY THINK ABOUT IT!! Also "demax5678" I LOVE that Ford is fixing up your Michigan Central Station! I LOVE Urbex video and close to 10 years ago I seen your train station and fell in love with the building and could "feel" the energy of it though my laptop monitor. It would also be wonderful if they could get the Downtown back to the way it use to be and have those skyscrapers full of tenants again!! There is only ONE party that will make that happen!! Have a good night man and sorry about my rambling.
@@michaeljohn9263 - As a native Detroiter in exile, an economic refugee in Texas, I couldn't agree with you more. Just remember that it was not racism that started the 1967 riots....it was selling liquor without a license....and people who thought laws didnt apply to them. I was 11 years old and present at the riots, before my parents got me to a safer neighborhood the next day.
@@kathy2trips 🤣🤣🤣🤣 is that what you tell yourself I wonder how hard it was for blacks to get liquor licenses back then oh not to mention a whole freeway ran through a community and now said freeway is being torn down because it's useless as the day it was built 🤷🏿♂️
Sixteen years ago, I was in a jet flying over Detroit before landing at DTW. Saw blocks and blocks of houses from a passenger window. At the time, I was told that Detroit was "rotten". Nice to hear that people are actually restoring some of these old architectural gems.
Thank you for your work on the little known history of places like Brush Park. Few people outside of the Detroit area are aware of it's rich and fascinating history! ⚜
As I don’t live in America, but I think it’s really important to keep this part of your history. Once’s its destroyed it can never be replaced. It something that needs to be looked after. Recreating something similar is not the same and doesn’t have the history.
i grew up in appleton, wisconsin and it was all farms. absolutely stunning. now…. it’s hard to visit. there’s too many people. there’s so much noise. there are no farms anymore. i agree. i wish we had more preserves here so we can continue to enjoy and maybe grow more tight knit..
I live about 30 mins outside Detroit and I've been through what is left of the neighborhood and saw the house that Nicole Curtis re-did. Absolutely beautiful! It's so sad that so many other houses have been lost. It's nice to see the renewed interest here!
I've been in the Rehab Ramson Gill house Nicole did. I worked for a Moving company and we moved the furniture out after the episode was filmed. We had to sign something saying we wouldn't post pictures because it wasnt aired yet.
@@chrism8180 You're an idiot. It was the third largest city in the nation at one point....so there was enormous history. And yeah the auto industry alone would qualify what they said above.
@@chrism8180The auto industry itself has a long interesting history. Before cars it was carriages and coaches. Before that, Detroit was a mecca for shipping and trade due to its location along water shipping routes from Chicago, all the way around Michigan, through Detroit and all the way to New York. Motown, rock and roll, punk music. Salt mining. During prohibition, Detroit was a hub of bootlegging activity due to its proximity to Canada, look up the Purple Gang. And, let’s not forget the auto industry’s contributions to the USA helping win WWII. It also was the home to, at the time, Hudson’s, the largest department store in the world. If the name sounds familiar, it was the same owner as Hudson Motors, which eventually merged with Nash-Kelvinator to become AMC. As the other poster stated, it was founded in 1701. It predates the United States and has a long, storied history. As much as the media wants to sometimes, it cannot be summarized with pictures of a crumbling Packard plant and an abandoned train station (which is also nearly completely rehabbed, thanks to being purchased by Ford Motor Company). I would be naive to say Detroit doesn’t still face challenges, but it definitely is on the rebound and will live to tell more tales. For the record, this was not intended to be snide. It was a sincere attempt to evoke interest in a great city. Peace.
I am not sure if ten years ago where I was driving was considered Brush Park, but even at night it was visible that the dilapidated old moderately sized mansions with overgrown grass that were not fenced in, were exquisitely ornate and definitely worth salvaging. I think it’s so important to repeat that it’s likely many of these buildings were built without the aid of modern conveniences of mass production and transit. The amount of human and animal labor invested to construct them is worthy of recognition. 7:07
I love Detroit and have many, many wonderful memories of that city. I used to work for Chrysler as a car stylist in the mid-seventies and worked in Highland Park. Many years later, I was asked to teach a semester at the Detroit College for Creative Studies off of Warren and Woodward Avenue. I saw some of the turn of the century buildings near there rejuvenated and they were so beautiful. I hope that Detroit not only survives but thrives.....I love that city!
If you’re not from Detroit you might not know exactly how much it’s been turning around lately. It’s an unrecognizable place compared to the early 2000’s let alone how Robocop depicted it.
Yeah. Its nicer than in the early 2000s, but so much history has been destroyed. You can't replace a block of 150 year old mansions with a Whole Foods and call it progress.
It is never too late for appreciating and restoring history. Nicole has done a wonderful job with restoring the beautiful older homes. I have enjoyed watching her progress on her show.❤
I adore her!! She opened my eyes to show that nothing is impossible. She’s saved houses that I never would have imagined could be saved. And those old homes were built to last…not like these ugly new construction that will fall apart in no time.
These historic mansions deserve to be preserved and restored to their original glory! Can you imagine the amount of work & craftsmanship put in to their construction! Watched the whole Rehab addict's restoration of Ransom Gillis house and it was amazing!!! ❤
Just wanted to pop in and say I live in brush park now! The photos here are great, and I’d say about 12-15 of the original mansions are all now completely restored and occupied, I love to gawk at them on my walks
The same deterioration was happening here in Grand Rapids, until Grand Rapids came up with Heritage Hill Association, and there are several, beautiful restored homes/mansions in our downtown area!!
First time watching your channel with this video today. I love old homes and it breaks my heart to see them deteriorate or torn down. I subscribed and will now watch more of your videos!
I am born and raised in Detroit, and I live in the University of Detroit area. It's a huge change since covid. But it's coming back slowly. And yes they are renovating the brush area again and it looks great.
@@lucasremIf I were young and could afford it and travel wasn't a problem to a job. I'd make certain the property was surrounded by iron fencing with pin sharp points on the posts, along with several attack dogs and a great security system and armaments.
As a recent Michigander (2018) living in GR, but traveling all over the Mitten for work, whenever I am in Detroit on business, which is often, I am amazed and proud of the transformations I see in various neighborhoods. It is far from "nearly done", but man, oh man! And housing is still so much cheaper in the places I've lived before - Atlanta and Chicago.
Brush Park reminds me of Grand Avenue (renamed Wisconsin Ave. after everyone moved away) in Milwaukee. It was also tree lined with mansions. The same thing happened. People moved out of the city and the houses rotted and were raised. Only a few exist today like the Pabst Mansion. What a shame!
Wisconsin ave., from downtown, through the MU campus, and out to 'tosa.. is a repulsive ghetto. I lived there in 1990-1992 and there was never anything there resembling a mansion.
You should do one about the Newberry house that was once on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit. Look for the articles of it when it was demolished in 1962. The historical museum archives also has a few pictures of it.
I'm from this area of the D. My grandparents lived on Lincoln St, between Willis and Alexandrine. Street before the Jefferies Projects. You could see the old Tiger stadium lights from their porch. We listened to the stadium, and turned to volume off during the World Series. We could actually hear the crowds. It was awesome..My High school was located on West Warren, between 12th, 14th and Grand River. I am a proud Murray Wright Lady Pilot..
The lesson to be learned here is, dont buy and hold city properties. I've watched neighborhoods in Baltimore and DC go through this over and over. A bunch of Fed, State and local money is invested, and things get better but after a decade these places are forgotten about for other areas, and they slide back into decay. It all comes down the safety. If people dont feel safe walking down the street they will move.
Yep, spot on. And when people don't feel safe and move, businesses tank, no new business moves in, and the government starts seeing massive revenue loss. Time to reinvest. Rinse and repeat.
There’s a reason many of americas cities and infrastructure still like they came from the 1970s. We’ve been diverting trillions of dollars of stolen tax receipts to hold up the detroit’s, Baltimore’s, D.C’s… There’s something wrong with us, we keep repeating, failed policies.
Across the street from Little Cesar's Area, this area is booming to say the least. My only gripe is that Detroit's comeback was not fully mentioned in terms of the past few years' progress; otherwise, I loved the video and learned some things to discuss in my next adventure to Brush Park. Thanks for bringing eyes to Detroit
These revitalization efforts taking place in rust belt cities are going to surprise a lot of people. It's shocking how quickly things are improving in places like Detroit and Cincinnati.
Just as a footnote: Detroit demise as main production and manufacturing center started in 1962 when city income tax was implemented by newly elected leadership.
I've seen the ruins of Brush Park and the restorations. As an admirer of 19th - early 20th century architecture I believe the area can turn around with investments and restorations.
My great aunt owned the former residence of Henry Ford that is still located in that neighborhood. Her and her husband owned it until around 1987. We use to go there every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The house has cathedral ceilings, hidden passageways and stunning woodwork. The neighborhood itself was kinda scary a bit back in the 1980s but we went regardless.
@@kathy2trips no it’s not… it was East of Jefferson Ave. when Indian Village straddled both sides of Jefferson. The UAW building and grounds is where Edsel lived in Indian Village before moving to Grosse Pointe Shores where the Mansion still stands.
As a person born and raised, (and still currently living in) Detroit's Avenue of Fashion area, seeing how much they developed and fully renovated the area RIGHT before COVID-19 occurred is still pretty surprising to me, in a good way.
Thank you Ken, I really enjoyed this video because you gave us a glimpse of how beautiful those mansions were back then before they became demolished or dilapidated 😢. I really appreciate the work and research you do in producing each video. Hopefully, you’ll reach the 100k soon. 🙂
@@mvanluven78 we don't do that bro , it's been decades since Americans actually went and drove places and experienced it ourselves as we would much rather rely on the TV or someone else's opinion to form our's instead : )
@r33mote or Americans like the majority of the country? American culture has shifted from traveling and Experiencing to instant gratification of television and online viewing and that is all I was and maybe in a somewhat comedic way ...but...yeah...
My great great grandfather was a lumber millionaire in the 1870s-90s. He owned a mansion on Woodward Avenue about 4 blocks south of where The Whitney, now a luxury restaurant, is located. His house was built about 5 years before The Whitney and was almost identical. His son, my G-Gfather, sold the house and moved out about 1910. It was later torn down and replaced by other buildings. Today one of the buildings of Henry Ford Hospital is on that site.
Several years ago HGTV did a series on 2 college professors who bought back their families home in Brush park, was a beautiful home before and after restoration.
I work in Detroit and the city has transformed quite a bit in the last 3 years. Really hope this change is well funded and the people find ways to stay around.
We had beautiful dutch elms on Drexel off of jefferson. Its gone and the buildings too. It was a four family flat that we lived in but the wood was mahogany with beveled glass built-in cabinets it was a beautiful home.
The Jerome house at 2:17, large as it is, makes me think of a smaller version of the Clark mansion in Manhattan where the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark spent part of her childhood. All the best to those who bringing this neighborhood up from crime and decay! This may be a little off-topic but I'm reminded of Harriet Arnow's novel "The Dollmaker" which is about a rural Kentucky family that moves to Detroit during World War II so the father can take advantage of the job and financial opportunity and about how the members of a country family react to being in a far different place and culture from what they've known. In real-life some of my own relatives went from Kentucky to Detroit during the war.
I relate...my dad's family were from Kentucky and my mom born in Detroit when it was prosperous.Its sad that north America tears down rather than preserving.
Yes, The Clark Mansion is somewhat similar to The Jerome house but not as opulent or as large. I assume you've read the book "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune." It's such as fascinating true story. Someone should really make a documentary or movie about her and her uninhabited mansions. I'll have to check out "The Dollmaker." Thanks for the tip!
@@lauraguida8482 I did read "Empty Mansions", great book. I could hardly put it down. I hope you'll enjoy "The Dollmaker", it's a remarkable American novel.
I remember some of those old buildings. It's so sad that they're gone forever. At least some of Indian Village is still intact. I think the Henry Ford Hospital area is building back to give staff safe, quality housing.
I was hoping you'd show current pictures of Brush Park. They've really turned it around. It's so beautiful!! And good luck catching one of the new apartments, they go for $1,500 and more in some parts of Downtown Detroit
I definitely would support the rebuilding of these parts of American history. If I had the money to buy and repair one of them I definitely would. Thank you for giving us such a great part of our history..
I've worked on a couple houses in the Boston. Edison district and the inlay ceilings, the staircases and the steam radiators, with fancy designs. Are priceless.
Another great video! Wouldn't it be wonderful if a modern millionaires row was built today with homes showcasing the old world architecture and craftsmanship.
Loved this video. 🥰 I forgot the show you mentioned that helped to bring Detroit back, especially those old homes. I loved that show and the renovator. She was very good at what she did. I remember her son on the show. I wondered what happened to her. Watching what she did to bring those homes back really excited me. So sad that more homes couldn't be saved,😥 Those were the style of homes that I would have loved renovation. Keep them coming.
I've been waiting for something like this my whole life! I love to learn about the history of my state and the history of Detroit because I truly believe it's on of America's greatest cities. Thank you for this video!!
I was stationed in Detroit in the late 70's and I was struck by the woderful architecture on Grand BLVD alone and the absolute disdain the residents had for the homes there.
As a native Detroiter who lived around the corner from Hitsville USA (on Grand Boulevard) in the 1960's and 1970's we had love and respect for the big beautiful homes there. I don't know who you ran into.⁷
Yes, absolutely it can be turned around. I grew up in Syracuse, NY and the same story tree lined streets and great old houses. For years the tear them down fever took hold but thankfully some forward thinking people realized the potential of these grand old houses and started to restore them. We can more forward and still honor our past generations accomplishments.
I think that's the way history is. It takes a certain amount of time before buildings transform from "old" and "run down" to "historic." I mean, people were stripping away materials from the Egyptian Pyramids to build their houses and towns! To them, they were just big old monuments to long-dead kings. And they needed rocks! It takes time before someone says, "You can't use that, it's history!" Across the U.S. beautiful building and neighborhoods have been demolished and replaced with 7-Eleven with strip malls because at they time, they were just old buildings ready to fall down.
They have some of the coolest houses in Detroit. You can imagine what they were like in their glory days when you drive by them. I heard back in the day it was an absolute beautiful place .
Whenever I go to an event down in Detroit I go through the city on the secondary roads so I don't get on the freeway or only goes 5 mi an hour and I go 35 on the inner city roads with no stops but just for traffic lights that used to be timed for all the traffic to go out freely not having to stop at every red light they used to go green and they all go red.
I read awhile back that a couple of real estate billionaires were buying up alot of land and abandoned places up there so I'm certain they have big plans. Awesome video, very informative!!
Yes well have to wait maybe a decade to see if that is the case and if it hasn't changed hands by then. There are the billionaires here that do real estate development but a lot of times not in the way they promised and a lot of it we are all STILL waiting to see the results of.
It looks like Eliot St remains relatively intact, but the homes are not as grand as the ones we lost. Just going through the neighborhood on Google Street is heartbreaking. So much was lost back when people didn't care about preserving grand old structures.
I work as a plumber in Detroit nearly every day. One huge problem is, you can restore that house but the neighborhood around you is still very poor and crime ridden. The natives to Detroit do not take nicely to being gentrified either. I've seen rows of brand new garage doors kicked in with, "HIPSTERS GO HOME!", spraypainted in red on them.
@@JDMNINJA851 How would you feel in their place, though? There's a whole lotta history here, & you can learn about it - the best book on the subject is Thomas Sugrue's Origins of the Urban Crisis. You can take the scare quotes off of real. The real Detroiters are the ones who stayed when things got tough. People who abandoned the city shouldn't expect a parade when they "return" and displace people who have been there all along.
The Old West End in Toledo (an hours drive south on I-75) also has spectacular homes from this era. Highly recommend investigating this historic neighborhood as well
And some of those are being renovated. I worked for Columbia Gas as a outside contractor and was in one of those houses and the staircase was 10 ft wide .
I hear from some people, that Detroit is starting to Thrive again. But from other friends or co-workers that have family in Detroit say people are still leaving.
When I lived in Chicago, around 1996, two couples bought a really, and I mean really run-down plantation type house on the north side, and I watch for years as they fully restored it. It can be done ....
I was born there in 1951. I moved away from Detroit in 1983, and never went back, but best of luck with that. I am aware of the transformation of the Michigan Central Train Station and that is magnificent. Just no reason to return to the midwest.
Here in Toronto, we have a similar area at the intersection of Shelbourne and Dundas. It used to be large expensive homes and now it's a series of dilapidated social housing rooming houses. The houses had long ago been divided up into rooms and added to the city's social housing portfolio when the owners fell behind on taxes. Every so often one of them catches fire and wether partially or completely burns to an unlivable state. Then it is torn down and awaits consolidation with its neighbors in a redevelopment project for a few decades.
Yes as a nursing student at UofT, I did public health nursing visits to the incredible old homes ( slums) off Gerrard just west of Sherbourne. Despite having to take a policeman with me to see clients I could see the structure of these old mansions. Now 40yrs later they've been restored and are costly condos, and the boarders that I'd see in those rooms are the street homeless now.
As an aspiring historian, I find it fascinating but also sad, the buildings of yesteryear fading away and replaced with lots and factories, as well as ugly futuristic style buildings
It good that people are buying and renovating the existing homes. But there is an odd contrast between the newer construction and the older construction. It could be a more cohesive neighborhood if the newer construction blended in more with what was there.
I think it is wonderful that these homes in the neighborhood are being restored! It’s a shame that others have been torn down and fell apart over the years!
Detroit needs to improve their schools. Give our youth a chance to turn the City around, with better education. Detroit parents also need to teach their children morals and perseverance.
Sounds like a dogwhistle. What exactly do you mean by morals and perseverance? Aren't many of the issues come from lack of home-ownership, poor wages, and lack of generational wealth?
@@Coggernautt That wasn't meant to be an exhaustive list. Yes, lack of home-ownership, poor wages and lack of generational wealth are part of the issues, as well. These 3 things you listed are also symptoms of lack of good education. if you persevere in education, then you have a better chance of attaining better economics. No guarantees, but a better chance. If we improve our morals, then we will value life more and, hopefully, commit less crime. Maybe it is a dog whistle, but we must try something. I never claimed to have all of the answers either. Yes, there is discrimination and lack of opportunity. We must do the best we can to overcome it as much as possible, by educating ourselves and valuing our neighbors.
As a native Detroiter, and currently employed as a plumber's helper. I have witnessed the demise of Detroit in the late 80's and 90's. I have since worked on some pretty amazing transformations. one in the Boston-Edison district, and another in Palmer Park area, and several in Mexican Village. These home where stately (can see in the craftsmanship) and the renovations where beautiful. It has been quite inspiring to work on those projects. And I hope to do more.
Keep up the good work!
I have a question for you that I hope you can answer. I often work in Detroit in animal control. Often, I see these metal boxes with siren-like light bulbs on them that are attached to each home. Can you tell me what they are and what their purpose is? Thank you!
@@mtino7509 to tie horses to?
Me to! Used to just keep them semi functional and now total reheb's .. I remember in the 80's the police station in that hood was like Fort Apache Detroit .. shootings, crime, vacant houses falling apart, ran over to Trumbull in the same condition, all nice now old houses being revamped and new construction
@@mtino7509 old alarms ..
I hope they do revive those beautiful historic mansions!!! Such architecture and art should never be destroyed!!!
The majority were torn down and are being replaced by mixed use developments
Where I am they rip down beautiful buildings for no reasonnnand replace them with glass and concrete monstrosities. Absolutely no character.
Most of the mansions are rebuilt around extra expensive condominiums stacked on top each other like cans
As a baby boomer, I advocate the prostitution, exploitation, rape, and destruction of every natural and unnatural resource no matter how rare it is.
Their building them for the foreigners that will buy them, because Americans can't afford them. And Foreigner will rule over Americans like kings and surfers because they were to stupid to protect their country from the nonviolent economic invasion of their country.
I drove through the Brush Park area last weekend and my jaw hit the floor at how much development is going on right now. It's been many years since I have been downtown in Detroit and I couldn't believe the turnaround that city has made! Brush Park looks fantastic! People are actually walking around, riding bikes and enjoying the urban living that has been absent for so many decades in the MotorCity! You should cover Grosse Pointe where all the auto giants built there palaces!
how many of the buildings in brush park were historic? i hope a lot still were!
So they're just not scared anymore...
@@ExoTheDrakoXIII yet
It's over developed in Brush Park now. One extreme to another!
The first suburbs was not Grosse Pointe tho, it actually was Highland Park.
I love it when people save old neighborhoods. It's just awesome!
Detroit is one of America's forgotten jewels. Loved visiting Detroit. The architecture and the materials used to build is top notched beautiful. America owes Detroit, the car industry changed our lives. Much respect.🙏🏾💚
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Go LIVE there, it’s crap!!
Michael Farrell, a professor of art history, bought The Elisha Taylor/Art House, a dilapidated home in 1981 for $65,000 with the help of friends. He made the ambitious decision to live in the home while restoring it and turning it into a center for art lectures and tours.
When I first moved to Michigan in 2004 I got to go on one of his tours and visit his home!
wow that is a steal! i wonder how much its worth now
Bunch of squares!🙄
I took art history classes from Michael and we were invited to his house to see it and his collection of porcelain. An urban pioneer.
Happy to see Detroit make a comeback. Detroit deserves to get back to its former glory.
It won't last.
I’m not American. I’m an Aussie and find it very sad to have seen what happened to this development. I’ve seen tv shows showing what happened to Detroit when the car industry abandoned the city. There were seeds of hope though- 10- 15 years ago. People particularly artists had moved in to certain areas slowly renovating, community gardens etc. building communities.
Our Queensland Premier back in the 60s to the 80s ruled like a dictator . He was determined to make our capital city into a modern city and which skyscrapers to rival the southern cities. He had destroyed almost ALL of our historic buildings. When the pressure from the people became too much with protests he got his favourite builders who’d started coming in the middle of the night using a huge wrecking ball.
An absolute travesty. Think there are 3 historic sandstone buildings left.
As a lifelong Detroiter, thank you for the work you are doing on this channel.
Agreed, but from a new Detroiter😊
You own an old house ?
At the beginning of the video this guys asked "So what happened?". The 1967 Detroit Riot is what happened! After those riots happened everything changed, and not for the better might I add because all it did was destroy a once beautiful city and caused a huge amount of people either into the Suburbs or to another city or state as the city was considered unsafe. I've watched TONS of history videos on Detroit and how it was The Powerhouse of America and what started out our love affair to the automobile and the open road. The sad shame with all of this is that Detroit will never be what it once was, as much as I personally hope that once day it will...it just won't happen. The amount of manufacturing going on in Detroit and Flint was something I don't see happening like that ever again as EVERYTHING has been off shored to China. Today is October 31st 2022 and November 8th 2022 is the day YOU get to decide what path this country takes. Before you vote ASK YOURSELF if you were doing better 2 years ago! If you have to get a note pad and pen and literally write down what was better and what is not better. The price of food, gasoline, heating oil, natural gas, rent, interest rates on your mortgage and credit cards, your job status, regular everyday stuff like that. THIS ELECTION IS IMPORTANT!!! The Democrats' are hell bent on getting rid of OIL...ALL OF IT!!! We WILL FREEZE if they keep playing this game as Newsweek said October 26th 2022 at 11:23am EST " Diesel Shortage Update as Prices Skyrocket Over Fears Supply Could Run Out" "New government data released on Wednesday show that diesel supplies are "unacceptably low," as National Economic Council Director Brian Deese told Bloomberg TV on Wednesday. According to the Energy Information Administration, the U.S. has now 25 days left of diesel supply, its lowest level since 2008.". I was never a fan of Trump until 2 years into his term and I started seeing things change for the better, I LIVE IN CANADA and YES whatever happens to you guys happens to us up here!! My wage was the same and POOF I could buy more! GAS WAS THE CHEAPEST SINCE 2004!!! It's up to all of you on who and why you vote BUT PLEASE REALLY THINK ABOUT IT!!
Also "demax5678" I LOVE that Ford is fixing up your Michigan Central Station! I LOVE Urbex video and close to 10 years ago I seen your train station and fell in love with the building and could "feel" the energy of it though my laptop monitor. It would also be wonderful if they could get the Downtown back to the way it use to be and have those skyscrapers full of tenants again!! There is only ONE party that will make that happen!! Have a good night man and sorry about my rambling.
@@michaeljohn9263 - As a native Detroiter in exile, an economic refugee in Texas, I couldn't agree with you more. Just remember that it was not racism that started the 1967 riots....it was selling liquor without a license....and people who thought laws didnt apply to them. I was 11 years old and present at the riots, before my parents got me to a safer neighborhood the next day.
@@kathy2trips 🤣🤣🤣🤣 is that what you tell yourself I wonder how hard it was for blacks to get liquor licenses back then oh not to mention a whole freeway ran through a community and now said freeway is being torn down because it's useless as the day it was built 🤷🏿♂️
Sixteen years ago, I was in a jet flying over Detroit before landing at DTW. Saw blocks and blocks of houses from a passenger window. At the time, I was told that Detroit was "rotten". Nice to hear that people are actually restoring some of these old architectural gems.
Thank you for your work on the little known history of places like Brush Park. Few people outside of the Detroit area are aware of it's rich and fascinating history! ⚜
As I don’t live in America, but I think it’s really important to keep this part of your history. Once’s its destroyed it can never be replaced. It something that needs to be looked after. Recreating something similar is not the same and doesn’t have the history.
All history and structures are lost to time. That's nature's way
i grew up in appleton, wisconsin and it was all farms. absolutely stunning. now…. it’s hard to visit. there’s too many people. there’s so much noise. there are no farms anymore. i agree. i wish we had more preserves here so we can continue to enjoy and maybe grow more tight knit..
@@chrism8180caveman brain
They destroyed it on purpose. Look into Tartaria
Doesn't have the same quality building materials nor craftsmanship. You're absolutely right.
I live about 30 mins outside Detroit and I've been through what is left of the neighborhood and saw the house that Nicole Curtis re-did. Absolutely beautiful! It's so sad that so many other houses have been lost. It's nice to see the renewed interest here!
I was just going to say Detroit needs Nicole Curtis to keep restoring lol. I watched that restoration (and all her others) and it was amazing!
Joe Says: I became addicted to Nicole's show, "Rehab Addict" - her Love for historic homes is So Inspiring!
@@lizzie4194 yes Nicole Curtis does a fabulous job
I've been in the Rehab Ramson Gill house Nicole did. I worked for a Moving company and we moved the furniture out after the episode was filmed. We had to sign something saying we wouldn't post pictures because it wasnt aired yet.
Detroit has such a rich and deep history that many never know about. Thank you for your content.
Like what? The auto industry? It's hardly that interesting
@@chrism8180 You're an idiot. It was the third largest city in the nation at one point....so there was enormous history. And yeah the auto industry alone would qualify what they said above.
@@chrism8180Google is free
@@chrism8180Detroit was established in 1701 by Antoine de Cadillac. It has a long illustrious history.
@@chrism8180The auto industry itself has a long interesting history. Before cars it was carriages and coaches. Before that, Detroit was a mecca for shipping and trade due to its location along water shipping routes from Chicago, all the way around Michigan, through Detroit and all the way to New York. Motown, rock and roll, punk music. Salt mining. During prohibition, Detroit was a hub of bootlegging activity due to its proximity to Canada, look up the Purple Gang. And, let’s not forget the auto industry’s contributions to the USA helping win WWII. It also was the home to, at the time, Hudson’s, the largest department store in the world. If the name sounds familiar, it was the same owner as Hudson Motors, which eventually merged with Nash-Kelvinator to become AMC. As the other poster stated, it was founded in 1701. It predates the United States and has a long, storied history. As much as the media wants to sometimes, it cannot be summarized with pictures of a crumbling Packard plant and an abandoned train station (which is also nearly completely rehabbed, thanks to being purchased by Ford Motor Company).
I would be naive to say Detroit doesn’t still face challenges, but it definitely is on the rebound and will live to tell more tales. For the record, this was not intended to be snide. It was a sincere attempt to evoke interest in a great city. Peace.
I am not sure if ten years ago where I was driving was considered Brush Park, but even at night it was visible that the dilapidated old moderately sized mansions with overgrown grass that were not fenced in, were exquisitely ornate and definitely worth salvaging. I think it’s so important to repeat that it’s likely many of these buildings were built without the aid of modern conveniences of mass production and transit. The amount of human and animal labor invested to construct them is worthy of recognition. 7:07
I love Detroit and have many, many wonderful memories of that city. I used to work for Chrysler as a car stylist in the mid-seventies and worked in Highland Park. Many years later, I was asked to teach a semester at the Detroit College for Creative Studies off of Warren and Woodward Avenue. I saw some of the turn of the century buildings near there rejuvenated and they were so beautiful. I hope that Detroit not only survives but thrives.....I love that city!
If you’re not from Detroit you might not know exactly how much it’s been turning around lately. It’s an unrecognizable place compared to the early 2000’s let alone how Robocop depicted it.
Robocop was filmed in Dallas. Lol
HAHAHAHAHA, its crime infested since BLM came out, and COVID Started. a true plague.
robocop wasnt supposed to be like real life
Detroit will never get back to where it was. It's too many lowlifes living in the city
Yeah. Its nicer than in the early 2000s, but so much history has been destroyed. You can't replace a block of 150 year old mansions with a Whole Foods and call it progress.
It is never too late for appreciating and restoring history. Nicole has done a wonderful job with restoring the beautiful older homes. I have enjoyed watching her progress on her show.❤
I adore her!! She opened my eyes to show that nothing is impossible. She’s saved houses that I never would have imagined could be saved. And those old homes were built to last…not like these ugly new construction that will fall apart in no time.
Is she still restoring homes there? I hurd she was having problems and was going to move her show to Flint.
These historic mansions deserve to be preserved and restored to their original glory! Can you imagine the amount of work & craftsmanship put in to their construction! Watched the whole Rehab addict's restoration of Ransom Gillis house and it was amazing!!! ❤
The craftsmanship of those days is no longer present in modern days. Enjoy the past work.
Just wanted to pop in and say I live in brush park now! The photos here are great, and I’d say about 12-15 of the original mansions are all now completely restored and occupied, I love to gawk at them on my walks
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The same deterioration was happening here in Grand Rapids, until Grand Rapids came up with Heritage Hill Association, and there are several, beautiful restored homes/mansions in our downtown area!!
The George Jerome house is RIDICULOUS - in the best possible way. Totally stunning.
That was my favorite too! Has it survived and/or been renovated?
@@karenryder6317Torn down in the 1930s, unfortunately.
Yes my favorite too
I believe that these are not only historical monuments, but as valuable as any iconic , masterpiece of art. They should be treated as such❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
As the video said .... the original owners did NOT value those buildings and they were discarded..... the mega rich sometimes act pretty weird...
I'm addicted to this channel! So much great information and history. I'd love to see a whole series on houses in Washington DC.
Washington DC was never trashed !
First time watching your channel with this video today. I love old homes and it breaks my heart to see them deteriorate or torn down. I subscribed and will now watch more of your videos!
I am born and raised in Detroit, and I live in the University of Detroit area. It's a huge change since covid. But it's coming back slowly. And yes they are renovating the brush area again and it looks great.
Sad so many of those beautiful houses are no longer standing. Hopefully some can be saved.
Lisa B
are you willing to buy real estate there, invest ? willing to live there ????
the husband ???
@@lucasremIf I were young and could afford it and travel wasn't a problem to a job. I'd make certain the property was surrounded by iron fencing with pin sharp points on the posts, along with several attack dogs and a great security system and armaments.
As a recent Michigander (2018) living in GR, but traveling all over the Mitten for work, whenever I am in Detroit on business, which is often, I am amazed and proud of the transformations I see in various neighborhoods. It is far from "nearly done", but man, oh man! And housing is still so much cheaper in the places I've lived before - Atlanta and Chicago.
@@GEN_X_ Hardly! All great places to live!
Does Detroit have rent control?Also,I think they have a conservative Republican police Commish.All it take is the right people.
Yes it has opportunities for cheaper homes in Detroit
That's a hell of a drive. I used to have to drive there from Lansing. and that was a ways.
Brush Park reminds me of Grand Avenue (renamed Wisconsin Ave. after everyone moved away) in Milwaukee. It was also tree lined with mansions. The same thing happened. People moved out of the city and the houses rotted and were raised. Only a few exist today like the Pabst Mansion. What a shame!
Wisconsin ave., from downtown, through the MU campus, and out to 'tosa.. is a repulsive ghetto. I lived there in 1990-1992 and there was never anything there resembling a mansion.
Pabst ... like the beer?
actually black people moved in, quit ignoring the real cause
@@swannoir7949 yes.
@@ruthpordon5166 Cool. I love Pabst Blue Ribbon. Lol.
You should do one about the Newberry house that was once on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit. Look for the articles of it when it was demolished in 1962. The historical museum archives also has a few pictures of it.
Thank you for not slandering the city or it's current residents in this video
Is there something to be said about them? Correlation to why the city is what it is today?
Yes there is
Why would we ?
Slander? Or a reputation well deserved?
@@debbylou5729🙄 here we go another outsider with no understanding of economics or politics
I'm from this area of the D. My grandparents lived on Lincoln St, between Willis and Alexandrine. Street before the Jefferies Projects. You could see the old Tiger stadium lights from their porch. We listened to the stadium, and turned to volume off during the World Series. We could actually hear the crowds. It was awesome..My High school was located on West Warren, between 12th, 14th and Grand River. I am a proud Murray Wright Lady Pilot..
If it ain't Murray it ain't Wright!!!
The lesson to be learned here is, dont buy and hold city properties. I've watched neighborhoods in Baltimore and DC go through this over and over. A bunch of Fed, State and local money is invested, and things get better but after a decade these places are forgotten about for other areas, and they slide back into decay. It all comes down the safety. If people dont feel safe walking down the street they will move.
Nice bit of realism
Yep, spot on. And when people don't feel safe and move, businesses tank, no new business moves in, and the government starts seeing massive revenue loss. Time to reinvest. Rinse and repeat.
That is racist /s
There’s a reason many of americas cities and infrastructure still like they came from the 1970s. We’ve been diverting trillions of dollars of stolen tax receipts to hold up the detroit’s, Baltimore’s, D.C’s…
There’s something wrong with us, we keep repeating, failed policies.
@@Handletaken4how is that, never heard mention of a race, you sound racist
Across the street from Little Cesar's Area, this area is booming to say the least. My only gripe is that Detroit's comeback was not fully mentioned in terms of the past few years' progress; otherwise, I loved the video and learned some things to discuss in my next adventure to Brush Park. Thanks for bringing eyes to Detroit
becasue there is no comback
This viewers name says it all HE IS TROLLLING !
I hope and pray it falls and collapses hard. Why can't natives have their land back from foreign ethnic colonizers??
These revitalization efforts taking place in rust belt cities are going to surprise a lot of people. It's shocking how quickly things are improving in places like Detroit and Cincinnati.
@@GEN_X_ Almost anything is better than staying a dump. Remember when they were selling homes in Detroit for a dollar? Because I do.
Just as a footnote: Detroit demise as main production and manufacturing center started in 1962 when city income tax was implemented by newly elected leadership.
That was a great video. Thank you very much. I lived in Detroit for 10 years and I would love to see every part of Detroit come back!
This is so neat. So grateful these homes are being saved. Slowly the city is turning around. Keep up the good work all.
I've seen the ruins of Brush Park and the restorations. As an admirer of 19th - early 20th century architecture I believe the area can turn around with investments and restorations.
It totally is
Bozo
Yes! Restore instead of building garbage.
Would love a feature on the Boston Edison neighborhood in Detroit
My great aunt owned the former residence of Henry Ford that is still located in that neighborhood. Her and her husband owned it until around 1987. We use to go there every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The house has cathedral ceilings, hidden passageways and stunning woodwork. The neighborhood itself was kinda scary a bit back in the 1980s but we went regardless.
Edsel Ford's "Honeymoon Cottage" is still located in Indian Village.
@@kathy2trips no it’s not… it was East of Jefferson Ave. when Indian Village straddled both sides of Jefferson. The UAW building and grounds is where Edsel lived in Indian Village before moving to Grosse Pointe Shores where the Mansion still stands.
This House, You're the best! I just had to subscribe!
As a person born and raised, (and still currently living in) Detroit's Avenue of Fashion area, seeing how much they developed and fully renovated the area RIGHT before COVID-19 occurred is still pretty surprising to me, in a good way.
Yes the area looks really nice 👍💜
I do think it’s possible to restore these homes. Glad to see it! Hope the gorgeous architectural details are also preserved.
99% are torn down
@@PeaceToAll-sl1db That would leave 35? If the bones are good it might be easier to renovate than a similar size post-millennial home.
You own any property ? dream guy only?
@@homeplanet365 5 left in brush park seems about right.
@@lucasrem I do ? whats wrong with keeping historic buildings ?
The house's that are left, most definitely should be preserved. They are unmatched and one-of-a-kind.
Thank you Ken, I really enjoyed this video because you gave us a glimpse of how beautiful those mansions were back then before they became demolished or dilapidated 😢. I really appreciate the work and research you do in producing each video. Hopefully, you’ll reach the 100k soon. 🙂
Thet aren't all gone. Take a drive through. I think you'd be quite impressed.
@@mvanluven78 we don't do that bro , it's been decades since Americans actually went and drove places and experienced it ourselves as we would much rather rely on the TV or someone else's opinion to form our's instead : )
@@ExoTheDrakoXIII Idk as an American that’s still an Option to do and if not the best one to get the best view lmao
@r33mote or Americans like the majority of the country? American culture has shifted from traveling and Experiencing to instant gratification of television and online viewing and that is all I was and maybe in a somewhat comedic way ...but...yeah...
@@kevinrayonflores2212 I agree, now we just have to get the majority of other humans to agree and get out of their houses LOL
Lovely to see improvements back home! I’d love to see an update regarding Indian Village. My mother grew up there on Iriquois. Very special memories.
My mom grew up on burns street!
My great great grandfather was a lumber millionaire in the 1870s-90s. He owned a mansion on Woodward Avenue about 4 blocks south of where The Whitney, now a luxury restaurant, is located. His house was built about 5 years before The Whitney and was almost identical.
His son, my G-Gfather, sold the house and moved out about 1910. It was later torn down and replaced by other buildings. Today one of the buildings of Henry Ford Hospital is on that site.
Thanks for the history.❤
Cool!! So do you know if your Great Grandfather and David Whitney (also a lumber giant) were partners?
Several years ago HGTV did a series on 2 college professors who bought back their families home in Brush park, was a beautiful home before and after restoration.
I work in Detroit and the city has transformed quite a bit in the last 3 years. Really hope this change is well funded and the people find ways to stay around.
We had beautiful dutch elms on Drexel off of jefferson. Its gone and the buildings too. It was a four family flat that we lived in but the wood was mahogany with beveled glass built-in cabinets it was a beautiful home.
Thank You for highlighting the history of this neighborhood in Detroit.
The Jerome house at 2:17, large as it is, makes me think of a smaller version of the Clark mansion in Manhattan where the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark spent part of her childhood.
All the best to those who bringing this neighborhood up from crime and decay!
This may be a little off-topic but I'm reminded of Harriet Arnow's novel "The Dollmaker" which is about a rural Kentucky family that moves to Detroit during World War II so the father can take advantage of the job and financial opportunity and about how the members of a country family react to being in a far different place and culture from what they've known. In real-life some of my own relatives went from Kentucky to Detroit during the war.
I relate...my dad's family were from Kentucky and my mom born in Detroit when it was prosperous.Its sad that north America tears down rather than preserving.
Yes, The Clark Mansion is somewhat similar to The Jerome house but not as opulent or as large. I assume you've read the book "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune." It's such as fascinating true story. Someone should really make a documentary or movie about her and her uninhabited mansions. I'll have to check out "The Dollmaker." Thanks for the tip!
@@lauraguida8482 I did read "Empty Mansions", great book. I could hardly put it down. I hope you'll enjoy "The Dollmaker", it's a remarkable American novel.
I remember some of those old buildings. It's so sad that they're gone forever. At least some of Indian Village is still intact. I think the Henry Ford Hospital area is building back to give staff safe, quality housing.
Even the cruddy bombed out looking houses...you can still see the beautiful architecture and building skill put into them.
Definitely worth saving!!! They are so unique and beautiful and a glimpse into the past!!!
Beautiful architecture.
I was hoping you'd show current pictures of Brush Park. They've really turned it around. It's so beautiful!! And good luck catching one of the new apartments, they go for $1,500 and more in some parts of Downtown Detroit
I’m glad there are people who have the money to save these beautiful homes.
I definitely would support the rebuilding of these parts of American history. If I had the money to buy and repair one of them I definitely would. Thank you for giving us such a great part of our history..
I've worked on a couple houses in the Boston. Edison district and the inlay ceilings, the staircases and the steam radiators, with fancy designs. Are priceless.
Another great video! Wouldn't it be wonderful if a modern millionaires row was built today with homes showcasing the old world architecture and craftsmanship.
Loved this video. 🥰 I forgot the show you mentioned that helped to bring Detroit back, especially those old homes. I loved that show and the renovator. She was very good at what she did. I remember her son on the show. I wondered what happened to her. Watching what she did to bring those homes back really excited me. So sad that more homes couldn't be saved,😥 Those were the style of homes that I would have loved renovation. Keep them coming.
Nicole Curtis has been working around Detroit and Lake Orion. Her show will be back on in November, I believe. Keep watching the TV schedule.
Give her a follow on IG too. Detroit design. I love her!
It's sad that so many of these once opulent mansions fall by the wayside, I hope that some can be saved!!! 👍
I've been waiting for something like this my whole life! I love to learn about the history of my state and the history of Detroit because I truly believe it's on of America's greatest cities. Thank you for this video!!
As winters around the Great Lakes get increasingly warmer, many of these old properties become worth restoring.
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I was stationed in Detroit in the late 70's and I was struck by the woderful architecture on Grand BLVD alone and the absolute disdain the residents had for the homes there.
As a native Detroiter who lived around the corner from Hitsville USA (on Grand Boulevard) in the 1960's and 1970's we had love and respect for the big beautiful homes there. I don't know who you ran into.⁷
@@andrepaige9669 bleks
You should tour the Whitney restaurant on Woodward Ave. It is a very lavish mansion with Tiffany windows.
Back in the late 60’s & 70’s my father’s business was on the 17th floor of the David Whitney Bldg., the building was absolutely stunning.
I worked at Visiting Nurse Association of Metropolitan Detroit when it was in The Whitney. Wonderful memories!! Gorgeous building!!
I honestly hope that area can make a comeback! I'd love to see a neighborhood with a mix of old and new homes!
Such BEAUTIFUL homes!!! WOW!
Yes, absolutely it can be turned around. I grew up in Syracuse, NY and the same story tree lined streets and great old houses. For years the tear them down fever took hold but thankfully some forward thinking people realized the potential of these grand old houses and started to restore them. We can more forward and still honor our past generations accomplishments.
yes this is exactly what we should do !
I think that's the way history is. It takes a certain amount of time before buildings transform from "old" and "run down" to "historic." I mean, people were stripping away materials from the Egyptian Pyramids to build their houses and towns! To them, they were just big old monuments to long-dead kings. And they needed rocks! It takes time before someone says, "You can't use that, it's history!"
Across the U.S. beautiful building and neighborhoods have been demolished and replaced with 7-Eleven with strip malls because at they time, they were just old buildings ready to fall down.
They have some of the coolest houses in Detroit. You can imagine what they were like in their glory days when you drive by them. I heard back in the day it was an absolute beautiful place .
The homes in Brush Park are so beautiful. They said be saved and restored. Keep the homes for the future generations.
I lived here since 2006,and yes it's back.
They're still building here and all over the city.
I haven't seen this much progress since the early 60's!
Whenever I go to an event down in Detroit I go through the city on the secondary roads so I don't get on the freeway or only goes 5 mi an hour and I go 35 on the inner city roads with no stops but just for traffic lights that used to be timed for all the traffic to go out freely not having to stop at every red light they used to go green and they all go red.
I read awhile back that a couple of real estate billionaires were buying up alot of land and abandoned places up there so I'm certain they have big plans. Awesome video, very informative!!
This entire area has already been redeveloped
Yes well have to wait maybe a decade to see if that is the case and if it hasn't changed hands by then. There are the billionaires here that do real estate development but a lot of times not in the way they promised and a lot of it we are all STILL waiting to see the results of.
@@antoinemoorman5754 how is it looking today?
Big plans come big money.
Hopefully they are local To the Detroit area who appreciate the area, or at least Michiganians.
It looks like Eliot St remains relatively intact, but the homes are not as grand as the ones we lost. Just going through the neighborhood on Google Street is heartbreaking. So much was lost back when people didn't care about preserving grand old structures.
YES they need to be restored less we forget what true craftsmanship is to the through away houses of today
I helped build brush park ,the mix of freshly restored and new buildings are definitely unique.
I love the work that Nicole Curtis does.
Your videos are always so informative and interesting!
These historical home's are beautiful 😍. Wow 👏
The recent growth in brush park is impressive. That area looks like a completely different city
@thishouse you should do a follow up video because that area is gorgeous and some of those houses haven been saved
I work as a plumber in Detroit nearly every day. One huge problem is, you can restore that house but the neighborhood around you is still very poor and crime ridden. The natives to Detroit do not take nicely to being gentrified either. I've seen rows of brand new garage doors kicked in with, "HIPSTERS GO HOME!", spraypainted in red on them.
Exactly, the "true" Detroiters will always drag the city down.
@@JDMNINJA851 How would you feel in their place, though?
There's a whole lotta history here, & you can learn about it - the best book on the subject is Thomas Sugrue's Origins of the Urban Crisis.
You can take the scare quotes off of real. The real Detroiters are the ones who stayed when things got tough. People who abandoned the city shouldn't expect a parade when they "return" and displace people who have been there all along.
@@elainebelzDetroitAngryy leftist ^
@@DontcallmeaCuck LOL
The Old West End in Toledo (an hours drive south on I-75) also has spectacular homes from this era. Highly recommend investigating this historic neighborhood as well
Yes! I drove through there coming from Detroit there were some beauties!
And some of those are being renovated. I worked for Columbia Gas as a outside contractor and was in one of those houses and the staircase was 10 ft wide .
💯 agree. I grew up there. Went back a couple of years ago and old west end still fabulous.
I hear from some people, that Detroit is starting to Thrive again. But from other friends or co-workers that have family in Detroit say people are still leaving.
It’s not thriving at all no one moves to Detroit.
I love Detroit in all it's beauty, history and blight. I lived on the Canada side and visited a lot in my youth.
it is coming back but only in certain neighborhoods atm, not all of the city is on the come up
When I lived in Chicago, around 1996, two couples bought a really, and I mean really run-down plantation type house on the north side, and I watch for years as they fully restored it. It can be done ....
I'm always amazed at how accurately RoboCop portrayed future Detroit.
I was born there in 1951.
I moved away from Detroit in 1983, and never went back, but best of luck with that.
I am aware of the transformation of the Michigan Central Train Station and that is magnificent. Just no reason to return to the midwest.
"The Magnificent Ambersons" by Booth Tarkington gives a great overview of the dissolution of these grand neighborhoods after the turn of the century.
Here in Toronto, we have a similar area at the intersection of Shelbourne and Dundas. It used to be large expensive homes and now it's a series of dilapidated social housing rooming houses. The houses had long ago been divided up into rooms and added to the city's social housing portfolio when the owners fell behind on taxes. Every so often one of them catches fire and wether partially or completely burns to an unlivable state. Then it is torn down and awaits consolidation with its neighbors in a redevelopment project for a few decades.
Yes as a nursing student at UofT, I did public health nursing visits to the incredible old homes ( slums) off Gerrard just west of Sherbourne. Despite having to take a policeman with me to see clients I could see the structure of these old mansions. Now 40yrs later they've been restored and are costly condos, and the boarders that I'd see in those rooms are the street homeless now.
@@joywebster2678 Wonderful world we live in, isn't it.
As an aspiring historian, I find it fascinating but also sad, the buildings of yesteryear fading away and replaced with lots and factories, as well as ugly futuristic style buildings
I sure hope soo. The beauty and craftsmanship was such a part of Detroit. We must try to keep history alive.
Great video and history on these homes thank you
It good that people are buying and renovating the existing homes. But there is an odd contrast between the newer construction and the older construction. It could be a more cohesive neighborhood if the newer construction blended in more with what was there.
I think it is wonderful that these homes in the neighborhood are being restored! It’s a shame that others have been torn down and fell apart over the years!
Even if the house is totally rotten it would be a crime not to remove the marble, painted tile, stained glass windows, or carved wood
@@FernandoTorrera there’s several places in Detroit and do exactly that.
@@FernandoTorrera yes! The definition of recycling and reusing! Any wood that can be salvaged too.
@@michaelmaas5544 good
Anyone being able to even have a home is a miracle
Not back in THOSE days!
Thank Democrats for that.
It's really not a miracle. Sad that you think basic housing is a miracle.
@@apebass2215It is in an era where many can barely afford rent let alone a mortgage and property taxes!
Owning a home in America is a miracle for the working class.
We had a front porch community in grosse pointe park, but the people that bought our house did not continue it.
Avendo i progetti credo sarebbe interessante e bello ricostruire gli edifici del passato e ricostruire così l' atmosfera della città
Yes, I vote for Baltimore!!. I've seen some pictures of simply amazing architecture in that great city too!.
Reservoir hill and Bolton hill rowhouses, gotta see them
Detroit needs to improve their schools. Give our youth a chance to turn the City around, with better education. Detroit parents also need to teach their children morals and perseverance.
Sounds like a dogwhistle. What exactly do you mean by morals and perseverance? Aren't many of the issues come from lack of home-ownership, poor wages, and lack of generational wealth?
@@Coggernautt That wasn't meant to be an exhaustive list. Yes, lack of home-ownership, poor wages and lack of generational wealth are part of the issues, as well. These 3 things you listed are also symptoms of lack of good education. if you persevere in education, then you have a better chance of attaining better economics. No guarantees, but a better chance. If we improve our morals, then we will value life more and, hopefully, commit less crime. Maybe it is a dog whistle, but we must try something. I never claimed to have all of the answers either. Yes, there is discrimination and lack of opportunity. We must do the best we can to overcome it as much as possible, by educating ourselves and valuing our neighbors.
Hopefully it will work! Beautiful homes.