Homes featured on 2008 Holiday Home Tour

1541 Balmoral Drive

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This splendid French chateau design is an unusual product of the prestigious architectural firm of Albert Kahn Associates. The house was commissioned in 1925 by Percy and Anna Evans. The vice president of S.S. Kresge Company, Mr. Evans' sensibilities and wealth are abundantly reflected in this home of incomparable charm.

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1530 Wellesley Drive

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Boasting a lovely conservatory that enhances its unique appearance, this stately Mediterranean-style villa with its Spanish-tiled roof was designed by Richard Marr, Detroit's prominent "architect to millionaires." The home was built in 1923 for I.H. Nie, an automotive executive with the Fisher Body Corporation who lived there with his family for almost 20 years.

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1970 Balmoral Drive

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1970 Balmoral

With sweeping interior vistas, high ceilings, and a large marbled entry hall, this sunny five-bedroom home is very welcoming. Fifty-three leaded glass windows bring a suffusion of light to enhance the warm comfortableness of the interior. A double fireplace connects the living room and solarium.

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1860 Strathcona Ddrive

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1860 Strathcona

Designed by architect J.H. Gustaf Steffens in 1921, this stately Tudor Revival home, with an astounding array of 70 leaded-glass windows, is attractively positioned slightly off-center in the peak of a sloping corner lot.

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19425 Gloucester Drive

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19425 Gloucester

In June 1931, building contractor Jerome A. Utley collaborated with architect Richard H. Marr to build the ‘sideways house’ on two lots in the heart of Palmer Woods. Sideways? This happens one of the few homes in Palmer Woods oriented perpendicular to the street.

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19275 Burlington Drive

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19275 Burlington

Built in 1925 by architect Clarence Day, this beautiful 6,360-square-foot Tudor Revival is breathtaking inside and out. The exterior Tudor Revival elements are familiar and unmistakable, including a multi-colored slate roof with massive front gable and numerous peaks and valleys; fluted brick chimneys; variable-colored brick façade with random ashlar protruding bricks, and the appropriate precision-cut limestone surrounds of windows and doors.

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