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498 homes on record in 12 towns

Historic homes of Wayne County

Wayne County has 498 homes on record, from the Labadie House of 1786 to the Roger Margerum House of 2005.

  1. Charles Trowbridge House, Trowbridge House on Jefferson, Detroit MI Plate 1 Charles Trowbridge House 1826, Detroit

    Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  2. David and Elizabeth Bell Boldman House, Site of David and Elizabeth Bell Boldman House, Canton, MI. DEMOLISHED Plate 2 David and Elizabeth Bell Boldman House 1835, Sheldon

    Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  3. Joseph Campau House, Campeau House on Jefferson Ave in Detroit MI Plate 3 Joseph Campau House 1835, Detroit

    Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  4. Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House, Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House in Cherry Hill, MI Plate 4 Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House 1840, Cherry Hill

    Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Wayne County at a glance

479 still stand and 19 are gone, the most recent loss the Franklin H. Walker House in 1998. Detroit holds the most, then Canton (8) and Grosse Pointe Farms (5). The style that shows up most is Colonial Revival (19).

Albert Kahn designed more of them than anyone else on record, 19 in all. The first here to join the National Register was the Charles Lang Freer House, in 1971.

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