  Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5173 Registered: 10-2003 |
For fun. What is the building in the photo below? Where is it? What was it called when it was built, and what is it called now?  | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 1047 Registered: 03-2006 |
Looks a little like the Fox & Hounds, but this looks smaller. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5175 Registered: 10-2003 |
Not Fox & Hounds. | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 763 Registered: 08-2007 |
rest stop on telegraph road in either dearborn or redford twp. now a motel | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5177 Registered: 10-2003 |
No, not a rest stop turned motel. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1554 Registered: 04-2006 |
Packard proving grounds? | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5180 Registered: 10-2003 |
Not the Packard proving grounds. | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 5239 Registered: 10-2003 |
Big Rock Chop House. Looks like a Kahn or Marr design. It was a railway station in the 20's. What do I win? | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 427 Registered: 02-2005 |
Albans? | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5181 Registered: 10-2003 |
You win the satisfaction of being correct! Big Rock Chophouse, formerly the Birmingham Grand Trunk and Western Railroad Depot | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6560 Registered: 10-2003 |
Patrick, I wouldn't rule out S,H & G. either on that one... Could also be a GTRR house architect, although I've never seen that tudor revival style in a station before... | ||
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man Post Number: 629 Registered: 05-2006 |
building info: http://www.mcgi.state.mi.us/hs o/sites/22488.htm | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 2142 Registered: 11-2003 |
God knows I took the train from that station in and out of Detroit quite a few times in my childhood, and my dad was a regular customer on the Grand Trunk commuter at that station, too. The commuter even had a club car for the outbound patrons. Once I recall Dad stayed a little too long in the club car, did not get off in Birmingham, but called us from Pontiac and we had to drive up Woodward and bring him home from there. The station had only one waiting room and you entered it as you came in the front door. That's because you "waited" for the inbound train from Pontiac to go downtown. Very few people took the station outbound ( other than from downtown) so they only had a platform on the outbound side,no waiting room as such. To get to the outbound side of the station, you went through the lobby and took the steps down and then through a corridor underneath the tracks and then walked up the steps and you were then on the outbound platform. I still have my February 1957 1500 page "Official RR Guide" which shows that back then there were 7 passenger trains a day running between Pontiac and Detroit. We are finally going to try out the Big Rock Chophouse next week as we have heard good things about it. I doubt we will see Mr. Wichman who was the ticket master in the late 40's. | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 429 Registered: 02-2005 |
went to Big Rock a couple weeks ago. Better have Big Wallet! everything is a la carte! | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5185 Registered: 10-2003 |
 Opening day celebration at the Birmingham station. Rock - Try the steak bites with chop sauce. Delicious! | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 6137 Registered: 11-2003 |
Big Rock Steakhouse is named for the big rocks you needs to get out. Thanks to The Rock for his colorful descriptions of life back when he commuted down to daddy's office or took the train North to Pontiac. Johnlodge, Patrick deserves a reward of some sort for this great ident. and jjaba hopes you challenge us more with future pics. People love the Detroit Trivia quizzes. jjaba, Westsider, on the NY Central to Niles. | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 5240 Registered: 10-2003 |
Albert H. Aldinger and George B. Walbridge?? I think they were the builders, but I am convinced that they didnt actually design it. It is possible that they bought a stock design and worked from that. i thought there was a Burrowes Library that looked similar to that in redford. | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 5241 Registered: 10-2003 |
Anyhow, that style of architecture died in the late 30's. There were variations during the 40's but nothing as remarkable as the traditional English revival designs of pre1929. The masonry designs surrounding the main door was probably bought out of a catalog, rather than hand-built on site. | ||
Qdaddy77 Member Username: Qdaddy77 Post Number: 103 Registered: 05-2007 |
why would jjaba take the train to Niles?  | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 1022 Registered: 10-2003 |
Patrick..... .....according to the Michigan State Historic Preservation website, the station was not built until 1930, which would coinside with the moving of the GTW tracks (and the abandonment of the Detroit United Railway) away from the Woodward corridor in the late '20's. | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 493 Registered: 11-2007 |
Gandy Dancer? | ||
Rel Member Username: Rel Post Number: 172 Registered: 02-2008 |
Bigb23, I think that's the Niles Train Station... with jjaba on the platform ;) JohnLodge: Next one, please! | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 6138 Registered: 11-2003 |
Qdaddy77, what a Richardson Romanesque Revivial pile if there ever was one. Thanks for the greeting card from Niles, Michigan station stop. jjaba, on the NY Central at Kalamazoo. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 2754 Registered: 01-2005 |
Never stopped along the way. My stop was Chicago, and from there to suburban Hinsdale. Spent many a summer day there, happy and not worrying about the Dexter bus running me over when I played ball in the street. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6561 Registered: 10-2003 |
I'm with you Patrick, I don't think those fellows did anything but build. I looked in the SH&G Book, no record of it, you might be right with Burrowes. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 1023 Registered: 10-2003 |
Used to be a model railroad club layout in the attic room of the station. Wonder if it's still there? | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5195 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: The corridor underneath the tracks still exists, too. It is now one of BRC's dining areas.  | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5197 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: This I am not sure about, though the only upstairs I know of was turned into Got Rocks Ultralounge.  In this image, you are looking up at Got Rocks from the main floor, so obviously this room does not extend over the entire main floor. Had you ever visited this attic room? Can you identify it by this image? | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5199 Registered: 10-2003 |
Alright, let's do another one. As a youngin', I lived pretty close to this. Except all that was left was one building.  What was this, and where was this? | ||
Rel Member Username: Rel Post Number: 182 Registered: 02-2008 |
Edgewater, Grand River & 7 Mile? |
