The Ransom Gillis House
19th Century Detroit became a thriving city by brokering its lumber age wealth into an industrial base that provided the basis for the automobile explosion which soon followed.
Detroit's upperclass built sumptuous residences on the outskirts of the city which today lay deep within the urban sprawl. These ruins may be seen today in the Brush Park area and along Trumbull Avenue north of Grand River Avenue.
The church is the Woodward Avenue BaptistChurch. Its still familiar to me from when I was a kid in the 70's. You could see that place for blocks with...