This artistically designed home beautifully blends vintage and modern styles and will wow you from the moment you walk in! The character found here is rare indeed with antique lighting, leaded and beveled glass windows, solid oak paneled doors, historical hand carvings and paneling, historical tiles and flooring, soaring ceilings, open floor plan, custom cherry, copper and granite kitchen, huge master suite, two formal entrances, 3 fireplaces, iron fencing and wrought iron gates, limestone garden borders, professional landscaping, copper gutters, exterior mood lighting and more. This home is a one of a kind and truly special!

MAIN FEATURES

• 3 Bedrooms 2 full baths 1 quarter bath
• Soaring ceilings and open floor plan
• Two formal entrances with interior and exterior vestibules and solid oak arched doors
• Antique and custom designed lighting throughout
• 12 stained and beveled glass windows throughout the house, circa 1880 to 1900
• 3 Fireplaces; great room, living room and basement; the great room fireplace has a hand carved panel, antique mantle, historic Wheatley hearth tiles and a 36,000 BTU Heat-a-Lator fireplace with remote; Wheatley was a 1900 American art pottery and tile company, very collectible; the living room fireplace is the original stone fireplace
• Updated kitchen with granite and copper countertops, custom cherry cabinetry and a historic 1880 ceramic tile floor imported from Loire Valley France
• Dining room open to kitchen with custom cherry cabinetry and antique oak railing separating it from the great room
• Custom wet bar with copper counters and stainless steel sink
• Solid oak paneled doors throughout
• Anderson wood windows with deep jams throughout
• Modern track lighting for art display throughout
• Solid oak staircase from the early 1900's
• Wood beamed ceilings
• Beautiful light and airy reading room with terra cotta floor and large windows with hanging leaded glass panels
• Great room with soaring ceilings, transom windows, and one architecturally unique wall designed to let sunlight in
• Wood floors throughout first floor (except the kitchen)
• Huge master suite (entire upper floor) with custom master bath, large rectangular skylight, large walk in closet and arched leaded glass entry door
• Master bath with terra cotta floor, two sinks, jetted tub with built in heater, toilet and bidet, extra spacious shower with decorative and pewabic tile and iron and bronze shower doors from the Cranbrook family garden house
• Two bedrooms on the main floor with updated guest bath, cast iron tub, pedestal sink, ceramic floor and an actual Hudsons elevator ceiling light
• Antique doors in master suite which open up to the great room below
• 2 Leaded and jeweled closet doors circa 1900 in the downstairs bedroom
• All paneling in the home is quarter sawn oak originally from the Cranbrook family estate
• Large bronze door knocker on rear door, circa 1900
Full basement with fireplace great potential for a third living space, plus with a quarter bath downstairs and a separate entrance the this could be ideal space for college kids or a teenager
EXTERIOR FEATURES:
Two car garage with a limestone frieze salvaged from an old Detroit library on Grand Blvd that states: "Let Knowledge Grow From More To More"
Unique garage side door with side lights and stained glass insert salvaged from an old Detroit mansion circa 1900
Garage has back lighting with a dimmer switch for evening al fresca entertaining
Balcony cage mounted on exterior of garage wall
Cast iron post, circa 1880 with antique light on top located by the exterior of the garage
Newer roof - approximately 9 years old
Stone walk walkway from driveway to rear deck
In ground sprinkler system
Invisible fence controller in garage
Exterior mood lighting system
Secret garden behind garage with stone walkway
Copper gutters
Front entry exterior antique cast iron light, circa 1990
Iron fencing around home once surrounded an old Detroit mansion on Jefferson avenue
Carved limestone garden border in front yard salvaged from the Hiram Walker mansion
2 Vintage urns in front yard
2 Vintage wrought iron gates secure the backyard/deck area, circa 1900
Master garden landscaping
BASEMENT AND MECHANICALS
Extra high ceiling
Newer furnace 2004
B-Dry system - 2005
Brick fireplace
Water heater - 2004
AC - 2004
All copper plumbing
200 Amp service 1999
All copper plumbing