  Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger Post Number: 580 Registered: 05-2008 |
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20080917/MIS C03/80917026 I hope it is still in good condition. Personally, I wouldn't want to live there. I like a cozy home, not a showplace. | |||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 7758 Registered: 02-2004 |
It least there is no party going on in that beautiful house. | |||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 10361 Registered: 10-2003 |
Gotta love the wall to wall carpeting of the 60s! | |||
Detroiterbychoice Member Username: Detroiterbychoice Post Number: 103 Registered: 04-2008 |
I wouldnt mind it to have a place to bury all the dead hookers from my terms as mayor. It would make great fertilizer for the morning glories in the backyard. Take that TruGreen! | |||
Beak Member Username: Beak Post Number: 4 Registered: 07-2007 |
FYI...You dump dead hookers, not bury them. sincerely, TruGreen (Message edited by beak on September 17, 2008) | |||
Greebomusic Member Username: Greebomusic Post Number: 13 Registered: 08-2008 |
Wow... did Carlita pick out the kitchen wallpaper? I've never seen a country kitchen in a house of that size before! | |||
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man Post Number: 944 Registered: 05-2006 |
Where's the brass stripper pole? | |||
Detroiterbychoice Member Username: Detroiterbychoice Post Number: 104 Registered: 04-2008 |
They probably got rid of it because it had dead hooker dna on it. | |||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 14018 Registered: 12-2003 |
Didn't know they had a space problem, but combining the study with the master bathroom was brilliant! Never will a mayor ever run out of things to read while sitting... ...unless that's Kwhyme's LAW library. He might take that along, even if not to practice. | |||
Saintme Member Username: Saintme Post Number: 234 Registered: 08-2006 |
Wallpaper should be banned! The upper walls in the bathroom were kind of tacky, I thought. Still, it's a gorgeous house. | |||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 439 Registered: 06-2008 |
"Never will a mayor ever run out of things to read while sitting..." pretty sure thats just tacky wallpaper | |||
Westsiiiide Member Username: Westsiiiide Post Number: 317 Registered: 05-2008 |
Nice pictorial and historical photo's of the mansion. I'm pretty sure that those photo's reflect the decor from 2002 was when Dennis Archer was Mayor. I remember that they had the mansion refurbished then. But Carlita & Kwame, being younger, re-decorated the mansion again with a modern theme and sleek modern furnishing. I remember seeing the photos around the end of 2003 I think in a News magazine. I also remember that the interior designer who decorated the mansion was the same person who designed the interior of Sweet Georgia Brown restaurant. So the room looks more modern right now. (Message edited by Westsiiiide on September 17, 2008) | |||
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger Post Number: 582 Registered: 05-2008 |
I wonder what happened to the furnishings and decorations once the Kilpatricks moved in. I would have thought there would be antiques in the house. I had a different idea as to the look of the inside of the mansion. I really don't think the "personal taste" of the current inhabitants should be allowed. It's really not their home. I wonder if changes have been made that might have affected the historic value of the property. The best use for the mansion, IMHO, is for the city to use it for official functions and to rent it out for other functions. Mayors of this city should live in a home and pay taxes. The home is pretty, just too big and opulent for my tastes. | |||
Iddude313 Member Username: Iddude313 Post Number: 180 Registered: 07-2005 |
I was in the mansion right after KK took office. A fresco-like mural was being painted in the oculus in the ceiling of the main room illustrating Kwame with various Detroit icons in the background' such as the Guardian, the RenCen, the Ambassador Bridge and the Incinerator!! Just terrible. Maybe that will get painted over. | |||
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger Post Number: 583 Registered: 05-2008 |
ld, I would donate my time (and paint) to cover that abomination. I hope the press will have access to the Manoogian in order to photograph the mansion and document its condition after the Kilpatricks have moved out. | |||
Quonset_hut Member Username: Quonset_hut Post Number: 10 Registered: 08-2008 |
Dang - I guess Jerry Cavanagh gained a lot of weight from 68 to 69. I was staying in the Jean Hoxie Tennis House a few doors down and we got to swim in the Manoogian pool one day when he was there - he was quite large. I walked over to the Mansion a little later than the others - didn't know how to get to the pool - so i just went in the front door. No one was there, so I went back outside and went around the house to the pool. I told one of the aides that I was able to walk in the house and he said "That shouldn't have been allowed to happen." Anyway, Jerry was nice, asked me where we was from (East Lansing), and us kids had a good time. | |||
Westsiiiide Member Username: Westsiiiide Post Number: 318 Registered: 05-2008 |
Lodgedodger, I saw photo's of the Kilpatrick's newly remolded Mansion and I remember is was kind of Art Deco. While looking for photo's of the present decor of the Mansion, I came upon a Freep article from 2002 that said that the Kilpatrick's had an auction of Dennis Archer's furnishings (mind you Archer had just recently had the home redecorated) and Kilpatrick's sold the furnishing through Dumochelle. I pasted the article on a word document.
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Originalg313 Member Username: Originalg313 Post Number: 18 Registered: 08-2008 |
The caption next to the pictures implies the pictures were taken "after a renovation in 1994." Are those real books in the bathroom? | |||
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger Post Number: 584 Registered: 05-2008 |
Thanks for the information, Original. | |||
Originalg313 Member Username: Originalg313 Post Number: 19 Registered: 08-2008 |
Iddude313, Are you serious? | |||
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit Post Number: 1198 Registered: 11-2006 |
The newest photos in the set were from 1994. I imagine Archer or Kilpatrick or both changed things quite a bit, including getting rid of some of that now out of style wallpaper, carpeting, etc. | |||
Bw7085 Member Username: Bw7085 Post Number: 19 Registered: 02-2007 |
Can't picture Coleman Young living in that big house all by himself for all those years. | |||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 986 Registered: 02-2008 |
Whats going to happen to the brass poles and ceiling mirrors? | |||
Ltdave Member Username: Ltdave Post Number: 275 Registered: 09-2006 |
what were the barricades in march for? because of the original revelations of textgate? | |||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 2206 Registered: 07-2007 |
Sweet place. I like the bowling alley photo, nice. I think they need a minister to bless the place to remove any bad spirits. | |||
Retroit Member Username: Retroit Post Number: 382 Registered: 04-2008 |
I wonder what Alex Manoogian would have thought of a man like Kwame living in his house? (Message edited by Retroit on September 17, 2008) | |||
Detmi7mile Member Username: Detmi7mile Post Number: 144 Registered: 12-2007 |
Was I the only one that found the pic with the girl putting glue on the easter egg quite funny? | |||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2097 Registered: 11-2003 |
Yes. | |||
Flybydon Member Username: Flybydon Post Number: 255 Registered: 01-2005 |
Manoogian Mansion today  |
