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TOUR HISTORIC HOME DESIGNED BY MICHIGAN’S FIRST FEMALE ARCHITECT AT UPCOMING FARMINGTON HILLS LECTURE
She was a graduate of Syracuse University, at a time when few women were graduating in what was then a traditionally “male” field: architecture. She founded Alpha Gamma Delta fraternity, broke ground as the first licensed female architect in the … Continue reading
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VINTAGE POINT: Parking in downtown Farmington
Cars park on both sides of Grand River in this photo of circa 1930s Farmington, taken looking east at the tree-lined Grand River/Farmington Road intersection. Click here for the then-and-now slider. Historic photo from the Farmington Community Library Heritage Room. Contemporary … Continue reading
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A Few Updates
A BARN UPDATE While we’ve been quiet on the Grand River barn front, other’s have been at work making sure this gem is saved. Somehow, somewhere our contact information was passed incorrectly, but through the efforts of a contractor for … Continue reading
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VINTAGE POINT: Quaker meetinghouse
This home at 34196 State Street, one lot south of the Quaker cemetery on Gill, was once the site of an 1832 Quaker meetinghouse. Subsequent owners built around it rather than tear it down; in the top photo (1957), you … Continue reading
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VINTAGE POINT: 33430 Shiawassee
This house at 33430 Shiawassee, no longer standing, was reportedly built in the 1820s or 1830s and owned by Arthur Power, who founded Farmington. It stood at what’s now the western edge of the First Baptist Church side lawn. See … Continue reading
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VINTAGE POINT: Detroit United Railway
From 1900 to 1930, you could hop on the interurban at the local station — like this one at the south corner of Grand River and Orchard Lake — and take the Detroit United Railway streetcar to Northville, Plymouth, or … Continue reading
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DOWN AND DIRTY: How 1970s Farmington got mired in the mud…and how “Operation Shovel” pulled them out
This is the first in a multi-part series about Farmington’s muddy roads in the 1970s. We Michiganders love to complain about our roads. The potholes that tear up tires. The rim-bending, frame-smashing torture on the way to work. Highways that … Continue reading
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VINTAGE POINT: Buck’s Liquors
A view of the north side of Grand River in the 1940s. John Cowley & Sons pub was Buck’s Liquors. To the right, next to the Farmington Civic Theater, was a sandwich shop. Historic photo from the Farmington Community Library … Continue reading
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VINTAGE POINT: Eagle Mill
Eagle Mill was built in the mid-1800s by Arthur Power. The mill came down in 1923, but the street is still called Power Road. Today, the mill site is a parking lot for the Shiawassee Park tennis courts, across from … Continue reading
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LECTURE: House-spotting, September 21
Maybe you love old houses—restoring them, living in them, touring them, photographing them. Or maybe you’ve walked through the Farmington Historic District so many times that you can identify the houses by color: the blue one on Warner, at the … Continue reading
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PRESERVATION FARMINGTON 