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Woodbridge Historic District

Photographed standing in 2008

Street scene looking south from the corner of Avery and Willis in Woodbridge Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Style
Second Empire

Woodbridge Historic District has stood on Bounded by Trumbull in Woodbridge. Who built it, what makes it special and how to see it for yourself.

On the map

More photos of Woodbridge Historic District

Hunter House, Woodbridge, Detroit MI, 2008 Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
House on Avery in Woodbridge, Detroit Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Street scene in Woodbridge, on Trumbull Ave between Willis and Selden, Detroit Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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

Woodbridge Historic District is one of the places that gives Woodbridge its character.

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

It joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Go see it at Bounded by Trumbull, Calumet, Gibson, Grand River, 12th W. Warren and Wabash Sts., railroad tracks, and Edsel Ford Expressway; also 4304-14 Trumbull Ave. and 3800 Grand River; also the southeastern corner of Trumbull and Warren. Photos never get the scale right.

Woodbridge is a historic neighborhood of primarily Victorian homes located in Detroit, Michigan. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, with later boundary increases in 1997 and 2008.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Where it is

Bounded by Trumbull, Calumet, Gibson, Grand River, 12th W. Warren and Wabash Sts., railroad tracks, and Edsel Ford Expressway; also 4304-14 Trumbull Ave. and 3800 Grand River; also the southeastern corner of Trumbull and Warren

On this map

  1. Woodbridge Historic District This place
  2. Woodbridge Neighborhood Historic District (Boundary Increase I) 0.1 mi
  3. Eighth Precinct Police Station 0.2 mi
  4. Northwood - Hunter House 0.2 mi
  5. Hunter House 0.2 mi
  6. Poe School 0.3 mi
  7. Woodbridge Neighborhood (Boundary Increase II) 0.3 mi
  8. Trumbull Avenue Presbyterian Church 0.4 mi
  9. Redeemer Presbyterian Church 0.5 mi

Street map from OpenStreetMap contributors

Around the block

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

Photo credits

Every photo on this page is used under its license, named here with its author and a link to the original.

  1. Street scene looking south from the corner of Avery and Willis in Woodbridge Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  2. Hunter House, Woodbridge, Detroit MI, 2008 Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  3. House on Avery in Woodbridge, Detroit Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  4. Street scene in Woodbridge, on Trumbull Ave between Willis and Selden, Detroit Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  5. Old Eighth Precinct Police Station in Detroit; corner of Rosa Parks Blvd and Grand River Avenue Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  6. Trinity Episcopal Church (MLK and Trumbull), Detroit MI Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources

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