The East Ferry Avenue Historic District is a historic residential district in Detroit, Michigan. The nationally-designated historic district stretches two blocks from Woodward Avenue east to Brush; the locally-designated historic district includes a third block between Brush and Beaubien. The district includes the separately-designated Col. Frank J. Hecker House and the Charles Lang Freer House.
In 1856, the Ferry Seed Company was founded in Detr...
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The East Ferry Avenue Historic District is a historic residential district in Detroit, Michigan. The nationally-designated historic district stretches two blocks from Woodward Avenue east to Brush; the locally-designated historic district includes a third block between Brush and Beaubien. The district includes the separately-designated Col. Frank J. Hecker House and the Charles Lang Freer House.
In 1856, the Ferry Seed Company was founded in Detroit; they established a large farm was at the corner of East Ferry and Woodward to grow the seeds that were sold nationwide. (Although no longer in Detroit, the company still exists as the Ferry-Morse Seed Company.) In the mid-1880s, then-owner D. M. Ferry platted the farm into residential lots along East Ferry Avenue. At the time Woodward was an upscale residential street, so lots facing Woodward were quite expensive (as is the Col. Frank J. Hecker House, on Woodward and Ferry). Lots on the side streets were less expensive, and East Ferry was...
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