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Aiw
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 8:12 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Are there any of these in metro Detroit? Were they government built? P.D.J.
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Broken_main
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 8:55 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Looks like half of the houses in the Warrendale area. Also very similar to some of the houses near Rouge Park Area
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Danny
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 9:20 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It looks mixture of fine Detroit neighborhood homes with a cookie cutter suburban touch.
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Tåla
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 9:41 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Have a look at Build it yourself homes, The Aladdin Company of Bay City. http://clarke.cmich.edu/aladdi n/Aladdin.htm
I think I alot them were built in Royal Oak.
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Goat
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 10:07 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I lived in one of those houses from the age of 10-17. It too had the faux stone on the outside.

The furnace was under the floorboards and to gain access you lifted up a heavy door which was very awkward to move. There was nothing but a small trench dug in the dirt underneath the house to acces the furnace. Though, you still had to crawl on your hands and knees to move around.
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Jjaba
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 2:04 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Excellent work Andrew. This is NW Detroit, Evergreen and W. Eight Mile Road or W. Chicago, Plymouth Rd., or Joy Road around Southfield in the Cody High School area.

Yours were built by Mc Tavish and Mc Kay. Ours were built by Greenberg and Fefferman, foundations and driveways laid by Lacavoli Brothers.
Our VA and FHA programs post-WWII financed millions of such houses in USA, including outer parts of Detroit.

jjaba, Strolling Pembroke Ave. on a cold day.
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Livernoisyard
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 2:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Those tract houses in the US were built to satisfy the demand from thousands of GIs returning after WWII. Relatively few of them were built later, except for military family housing near a camp, fort, or base.

There generally were four cookie-cutter designs, with few actual changes among them. Many were built the same every four houses apart. Could pose a problem for a drunk stumbling home late and getting into the wrong bed, as few houses were locked at night back then.
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56packman
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 3:44 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Reminds me of the house I grew up in. Braille st. between Clarita and Santa Clara (south of 7 mile). My dad bought the house brand new on the GI bill for $9,500, and took 20 years to pay it off. Holcomb elementary boy!
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Livernoisyard
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 4:47 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

My uncle had a garage on Santa Clara. Most housing north of 6 Mile was considered newer and better off. McNichols was a sort of a Mason-Dixon Line.

Also, little or none of the ribbon-farm street orientation existed north of 6 Mile on the East Side or west of Wyoming.
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Sknutson
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 5:44 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I love what appears to be wooden storm windows on "Mr. and Mrs. Sloan's" house. Note the 3 little round port-hole vents at the bottom. I used to love sliding the little metal cover back and forth to open and close them on our windows.
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Jams
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 6:02 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Had one of those in Lincoln Park, although it had a basement. I took over the mortgage as a favour to my sister and her husband when he was transferred to the East Coast.

The kindest thing I can say about it, Thank God it sold in two years. Not my style at all and as much as I tried, I could never make it something I felt comfortable in.

Although by a quirk of fate, the sale led me to West Village (never had lived on the Eastside before) where I have happily resided since.

Is it appropriate to have a Birthday Party for a house? My house will be 100 years old next year.
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Rustic
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 6:06 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Those houses in Detroit generally had basements.

Where I live now you can't touch one of those post-war economy capes for under 300k$, more depending on condition, location and additions. Saw one last fall (good location, good condition, but no significant additions) listed at 580k$. ...

Yay Detroit, some of ya don't know what ya got!
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Livernoisyard
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 6:17 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I couldn't believe the outrageous price some dump in or near Denver got when it sold at auction - either on a web site or ebay. Maybe the underlying lot was that valuable.
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Yupislyr
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Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 7:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Nice. That first one was my old neighbourhood not too long ago.

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