Rosedale Park, Detroit

The Rosedale Park Historic District is a conservation district in Detroit, Michigan. It is roughly bounded by Fenkell Street, Outer Drive, Grand River Avenue, Southfield Freeway, Glastonbury Street, Lyndon Street and Westwood Drive and is 1533 contributing properties of the numerically largest historic district in the National Register of Historic Places. It comprises largely written between the 1920s and 1940s brick houses.

History

The land on which Rosedale Park is located was reached in 1835 at Otis C. Freeman and George Bellamy and included two parcels of 80 acres ( about 32 hectares) size. Over the years, the two plots were further divided until 1916, the Rosedale Park Land Development Company purchased a large portion and umlegte. It finally came the Rosedale Park Historic District. The country shooting companies put also some other areas around, as the directly adjacent neighborhood North Rosedale Park on the other side of Grand River Avenue. For the company, the area was promising, as it was close to this road, which is a direct connection to the center of Detroit, and by the then construction of the Outer Drive.

The interest in the new district was indeed aroused quickly, and in 1917 laid the Rosedale Park Land Development Company additional land around, but actually only a few buildings have been tackled by the end of the First World War, only 15 houses were completed in this period. Thereafter, the interest flourished and in 1921, another area was turned over. The city of Detroit annexed the new settlement in 1926 and was responsible for the construction of water supply and sewage system in this district, wpdurch the attractiveness continued to increase.

In comparison with other contemporary city neighborhoods in Detroit, about Palmer Woods and Grosse Pointes Rosedale Park decreed on modest buildings and reflected rather the solid middle class and upper middle class of the former homeowner. Many of these homeowners were employees in the then booming automotive industry or professionals such as accountants, doctors and dentists.

With the beginning of the world economic crisis of 1929, construction activity step in the district has been slower; However, through the intervention of the Federal Housing Administration loans were easier and the late 1930s and early 1940s witnessed the districts a new boom. In the 1950s, was on almost every land a home. At the end of the 20th century, the population of Detroit declined, remained a popular Rosedale Park neighborhood, which dates back to the high-quality housing stock, the charm of the village as a whole and the activities of the neighborhood association.

Description

The Rosedale Park Historic District is a residential neighborhood. The main streets running north-south direction, large stone pillars mark the entrance to this part of town. A number of streets is structurally separated by traffic islands, oak and maple trees, which mostly date from the 1920s and 1930s line the streets.

Private architects came the construction of the neighborhood little to the course. The property owners sought more inspiration in books and published plans or selected under the standard designs of construction companies. Between 1917 and 1955 originated houses in a variety of architectural styles, ranging from Tudor Revival and Arts and Crafts replicas of the bungalow construction and the buildings on the nature of different Kolonialstile, such as the Dutch colonial style and the American Foursquare to bonds in the Prairie School, ranch -type houses, Garrison Colonial and the International style. The English country house style was obviously favored by the Land Development Company, many of the streets have names reflecting the classic England, about Glastonbury and Warwick Street.