TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 142-143
CreatorSmith, Kay, 1925-
InstitutionBloomfield Township Public Library
SubjectEdsel Ford House (Bloomfield Township, Mich.)
SubjectDwellings -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township
SubjectNULL
Item NumberGB01a073
Relationpart of 'Bloomfield Blossoms' by Kay Smith
Type
text, image
Formatjpeg
DescriptionTHE EDSEL FORD HOUSE ON WING LAKE ROAD
On a promontory overlooking Wing Lake stands an unique
house in Bloomfield. It's a French manor house on the
order of the Petit Trainon at Versailles, with long French
windows, balustrades and a low roofline.
It was built by Frank Book in the Twenties and in 1930
Edsel Ford bought the house and land. He owned it only a
few years and apparantly never lived there, but the name
"The Edsel Ford House" sticks, possibly because of the
painted mural which circles the entire interior perimeter of
the salon. It depicts the first transcontinental tour in a
Model T.
The house has sixteen rooms, with floors of hand-pegged
planks. Just above the mural in the high-ceilinged main
salon are hand-carved, hand-rubbed beams, with the same
motif repeated in the oblong dining room with its hand-
painted ceiling done in soft, muted colors. A gold
fountain greets the visitor in the entry which is tiled in
Italian terrazzo.
It's one of many interesting houses, both in terms of
history and architecture, on Wing Lake Road.
