Henry Ford’s former Detroit home is up on the market for $975,000, in keeping with an actual property itemizing from Corridor & Hunter.
Situated at 140 Edison Avenue close to Detroit’s Voigt Park, the home was inbuilt 1908—the identical yr the Ford Mannequin T launched—and was residence to the Ford household from then till 1915, in keeping with the itemizing. The Fords then moved to the bigger Truthful Lane property within the Detroit suburbs. Truthful Lane can be Henry Ford’s residence till his demise in 1947, and was later designated a Nationwide Historic Landmark.
The four-bedroom, 4.1-bath, home boasts 7,623 sq. ft of house and sits on a four-acre lot. Highlights embrace hardwood flooring, a screened terrace, fire, and a library with built-in glass bookcases.
Henry Ford’s Detroit home (photograph through Corridor & Hunter)
The home additionally retains some interval options, together with servants’ quarters on the highest ground, and a scullery and butler’s pantry in the primary kitchen (a second kitchen is positioned within the basement).
Along with the primary home, the property additionally features a carriage home with further residing house, visitor house, and garages. Maybe the brand new proprietor will discover a Mannequin T to park in these garages.
When this home was constructed, the Ford Motor Firm was simply 5 years outdated. These first 5 years have been turbulent ones for the corporate, however the launch of the Mannequin T would safe Henry Ford’s place as an automotive tycoon. A simplified manufacturing course of allowed Ford to construct the Mannequin T in massive portions and promote it cheaply, making it extra accessible to the lots. The remainder, as they are saying, is historical past.