/architects/baxter-hill

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Jacob Cotner Jr. House, drawn from its recorded size and kind until a photo we may share turns up

Designer of the Jacob Cotner Jr. House, the house that was built in Detroit's Virginia Park in 1896. The William B. O'Brien House, Detroit's Virginia Park (1896), is the other /architects/baxter-hill work on record here.

/architects/baxter-hill's Metro Detroit, drawn to scale

Both of /architects/baxter-hill's works on record, oldest at left. None has a height on record, so each is drawn at one standard size in the shape of its kind.

Jacob Cotner Jr. House

1896, Detroit, height not on record, drawn at one standard size

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The story

By Victoria Jackson, Editor in Chief Updated October 25, 2026

The Jacob Cotner Jr. House heads /architects/baxter-hill's work in Metro Detroit, a house in Detroit's Virginia Park, finished in 1896.

The record opens in 1896 with the Jacob Cotner Jr. House, in Detroit's Gilded Age, when stove works, shipyards and railroads made the city's first fortunes, and closes in 1896 with the William B. O'Brien House. Both the Jacob Cotner Jr. House and the William B. O'Brien House still stand.

In Detroit, /architects/baxter-hill's work stands in Virginia Park. Anyone tracing /architects/baxter-hill's work can begin at the Jacob Cotner Jr. House at 140 Virginia Park St and follow the map from there.

/architects/baxter-hill's mark on Metro Detroit, building by building

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Where the work stands

Virginia Park

Sources

The facts on /architects/baxter-hill come from Historic Detroit; Rebuild Detroit wrote the story above from them, and each photo names its license.

Source: Historic Detroit