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Building, Islandview, since 1924

Kingston Arms Apartments

No demolition on record

Kingston Arms Apartments on Grand Boulevard, Detroit MI Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Opened
1924
Style
Tudor Revival
Standing
102 years

The Kingston Arms Apartments has stood on E. Grand Boulevard in Islandview since 1924, 102 years and counting. Who built it, what makes it special and how to see it for yourself.

On the map

What is there now

Standing

We checked building permits, sales, listings and the city's blight and demolition files on October 24, 2026. Nothing new at this address in the last two years.

The story

By Victoria Jackson, Editor in Chief Updated

In 1924, during the boom years when the auto industry turned Detroit into one of the fastest growing cities in America, the Kingston Arms Apartments opened in Islandview.

It was built in the Tudor Revival style, and it still reads that way from the sidewalk.

It joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Go see it at 296 E. Grand Boulevard. Photos never get the scale right.

The Kingston Arms Apartments is an apartment building located at 296 East Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan, in the East Grand Boulevard Historic District. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The Kingston Arms, built in 1924, is a representative example of the rise of middle-class apartment buildings in pre-Depression era Detroit.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Timeline

  1. 1924 Built Tudor Revival
  2. 1999 Listed on the National Register April 9, 1999
  3. 2026 Today 102 years and still standing

Where it is

296 E. Grand Boulevard

On this map

  1. Kingston Arms Apartments This place
  2. East Grand Boulevard Historic District 0.1 mi
  3. Saint Paul Manor Apartments 0.1 mi
  4. El Tovar Apartments 0.2 mi
  5. Church of the Messiah 0.3 mi
  6. St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Parish Complex 0.3 mi
  7. Frederic M. Sibley Lumber Company Office Building 0.3 mi
  8. St. Bonaventure Monastery 0.4 mi
  9. West Village Historic District 0.5 mi

Street map from OpenStreetMap contributors

More from Detroit in the 1920s

Around the block

It is in Islandview. See the neighborhood's homes, pros and story.

Photo credits

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  1. Kingston Arms Apartments on Grand Boulevard, Detroit MI Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources

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