What Happened to Millionaire's Row in Detroit? 

how many of the buildings in brush park were historic? i hope a lot still were!

So they're just not scared anymore...

@@ExoTheDrakoXIII yet

It's over developed in Brush Park now. One extreme to another!

The first suburbs was not Grosse Pointe tho, it actually was Highland Park.

The majority were torn down and are being replaced by mixed use developments

Where I am they rip down beautiful buildings for no reasonnnand replace them with glass and concrete monstrosities. Absolutely no character.

Most of the mansions are rebuilt around extra expensive condominiums stacked on top each other like cans

As a baby boomer, I advocate the prostitution, exploitation, rape, and destruction of every natural and unnatural resource no matter how rare it is.

Their building them for the foreigners that will buy them, because Americans can't afford them. And Foreigner will rule over Americans like kings and surfers because they were to stupid to protect their country from the nonviolent economic invasion of their country.

Keep up the good work!

I have a question for you that I hope you can answer. I often work in Detroit in animal control. Often, I see these metal boxes with siren-like light bulbs on them that are attached to each home. Can you tell me what they are and what their purpose is? Thank you!

@@mtino7509 to tie horses to?

Me to! Used to just keep them semi functional and now total reheb's .. I remember in the 80's the police station in that hood was like Fort Apache Detroit .. shootings, crime, vacant houses falling apart, ran over to Trumbull in the same condition, all nice now old houses being revamped and new construction

@@mtino7509 old alarms ..

When I first moved to Michigan in 2004 I got to go on one of his tours and visit his home!

wow that is a steal! i wonder how much its worth now

Bunch of squares!🙄

I took art history classes from Michael and we were invited to his house to see it and his collection of porcelain. An urban pioneer.

Is there something to be said about them? Correlation to why the city is what it is today?

The craftsmanship of those days is no longer present in modern days. Enjoy the past work.

Agreed, but from a new Detroiter😊

You own an old house ?

At the beginning of the video this guys asked "So what happened?". The 1967 Detroit Riot is what happened! After those riots happened everything changed, and not for the better might I add because all it did was destroy a once beautiful city and caused a huge amount of people either into the Suburbs or to another city or state as the city was considered unsafe. I've watched TONS of history videos on Detroit and how it was The Powerhouse of America and what started out our love affair to the automobile and the open road. The sad shame with all of this is that Detroit will never be what it once was, as much as I personally hope that once day it will...it just won't happen. The amount of manufacturing going on in Detroit and Flint was something I don't see happening like that ever again as EVERYTHING has been off shored to China. Today is October 31st 2022 and November 8th 2022 is the day YOU get to decide what path this country takes. Before you vote ASK YOURSELF if you were doing better 2 years ago! If you have to get a note pad and pen and literally write down what was better and what is not better. The price of food, gasoline, heating oil, natural gas, rent, interest rates on your mortgage and credit cards, your job status, regular everyday stuff like that. THIS ELECTION IS IMPORTANT!!! The Democrats' are hell bent on getting rid of OIL...ALL OF IT!!! We WILL FREEZE if they keep playing this game as Newsweek said October 26th 2022 at 11:23am EST " Diesel Shortage Update as Prices Skyrocket Over Fears Supply Could Run Out" "New government data released on Wednesday show that diesel supplies are "unacceptably low," as National Economic Council Director Brian Deese told Bloomberg TV on Wednesday. According to the Energy Information Administration, the U.S. has now 25 days left of diesel supply, its lowest level since 2008.". I was never a fan of Trump until 2 years into his term and I started seeing things change for the better, I LIVE IN CANADA and YES whatever happens to you guys happens to us up here!! My wage was the same and POOF I could buy more! GAS WAS THE CHEAPEST SINCE 2004!!! It's up to all of you on who and why you vote BUT PLEASE REALLY THINK ABOUT IT!! Also "demax5678" I LOVE that Ford is fixing up your Michigan Central Station! I LOVE Urbex video and close to 10 years ago I seen your train station and fell in love with the building and could "feel" the energy of it though my laptop monitor. It would also be wonderful if they could get the Downtown back to the way it use to be and have those skyscrapers full of tenants again!! There is only ONE party that will make that happen!! Have a good night man and sorry about my rambling.

@@michaeljohn9263 - As a native Detroiter in exile, an economic refugee in Texas, I couldn't agree with you more. Just remember that it was not racism that started the 1967 riots....it was selling liquor without a license....and people who thought laws didnt apply to them. I was 11 years old and present at the riots, before my parents got me to a safer neighborhood the next day.

@@kathy2trips 🤣🤣🤣🤣 is that what you tell yourself I wonder how hard it was for blacks to get liquor licenses back then oh not to mention a whole freeway ran through a community and now said freeway is being torn down because it's useless as the day it was built 🤷🏿‍♂️

All history and structures are lost to time. That's nature's way

i grew up in appleton, wisconsin and it was all farms. absolutely stunning. now…. it’s hard to visit. there’s too many people. there’s so much noise. there are no farms anymore. i agree. i wish we had more preserves here so we can continue to enjoy and maybe grow more tight knit..

​​@@chrism8180caveman brain

They destroyed it on purpose. Look into Tartaria

Doesn't have the same quality building materials nor craftsmanship. You're absolutely right.

Robocop was filmed in Dallas. Lol

HAHAHAHAHA, its crime infested since BLM came out, and COVID Started. a true plague.

robocop wasnt supposed to be like real life

Detroit will never get back to where it was. It's too many lowlifes living in the city

Yeah. Its nicer than in the early 2000s, but so much history has been destroyed. You can't replace a block of 150 year old mansions with a Whole Foods and call it progress.

I was just going to say Detroit needs Nicole Curtis to keep restoring lol. I watched that restoration (and all her others) and it was amazing!

Joe Says: I became addicted to Nicole's show, "Rehab Addict" - her Love for historic homes is So Inspiring!

​@@lizzie4194 yes Nicole Curtis does a fabulous job

I've been in the Rehab Ramson Gill house Nicole did. I worked for a Moving company and we moved the furniture out after the episode was filmed. We had to sign something saying we wouldn't post pictures because it wasnt aired yet.

@@GEN_X_ Hardly! All great places to live!

Does Detroit have rent control?Also,I think they have a conservative Republican police Commish.All it take is the right people.

Yes it has opportunities for cheaper homes in Detroit

That's a hell of a drive. I used to have to drive there from Lansing. and that was a ways.

Thanks for the history.❤

Like what? The auto industry? It's hardly that interesting

@@chrism8180 You're an idiot. It was the third largest city in the nation at one point....so there was enormous history. And yeah the auto industry alone would qualify what they said above.

​@@chrism8180Google is free

@@chrism8180Detroit was established in 1701 by Antoine de Cadillac. It has a long illustrious history.

⁠@@chrism8180The auto industry itself has a long interesting history. Before cars it was carriages and coaches. Before that, Detroit was a mecca for shipping and trade due to its location along water shipping routes from Chicago, all the way around Michigan, through Detroit and all the way to New York. Motown, rock and roll, punk music. Salt mining. During prohibition, Detroit was a hub of bootlegging activity due to its proximity to Canada, look up the Purple Gang. And, let’s not forget the auto industry’s contributions to the USA helping win WWII. It also was the home to, at the time, Hudson’s, the largest department store in the world. If the name sounds familiar, it was the same owner as Hudson Motors, which eventually merged with Nash-Kelvinator to become AMC. As the other poster stated, it was founded in 1701. It predates the United States and has a long, storied history. As much as the media wants to sometimes, it cannot be summarized with pictures of a crumbling Packard plant and an abandoned train station (which is also nearly completely rehabbed, thanks to being purchased by Ford Motor Company). I would be naive to say Detroit doesn’t still face challenges, but it definitely is on the rebound and will live to tell more tales. For the record, this was not intended to be snide. It was a sincere attempt to evoke interest in a great city. Peace.

I adore her!! She opened my eyes to show that nothing is impossible. She’s saved houses that I never would have imagined could be saved. And those old homes were built to last…not like these ugly new construction that will fall apart in no time.

Is she still restoring homes there? I hurd she was having problems and was going to move her show to Flint.

That was my favorite too! Has it survived and/or been renovated?

​@@karenryder6317Torn down in the 1930s, unfortunately.

As the video said .... the original owners did NOT value those buildings and they were discarded..... the mega rich sometimes act pretty weird...

Lisa B are you willing to buy real estate there, invest ? willing to live there ???? the husband ???

becasue there is no comback

This viewers name says it all HE IS TROLLLING !

I hope and pray it falls and collapses hard. Why can't natives have their land back from foreign ethnic colonizers??

These revitalization efforts taking place in rust belt cities are going to surprise a lot of people. It's shocking how quickly things are improving in places like Detroit and Cincinnati.

@@GEN_X_ Almost anything is better than staying a dump. Remember when they were selling homes in Detroit for a dollar? Because I do.

Nice bit of realism

Yep, spot on. And when people don't feel safe and move, businesses tank, no new business moves in, and the government starts seeing massive revenue loss. Time to reinvest. Rinse and repeat.

That is racist /s

There’s a reason many of americas cities and infrastructure still like they came from the 1970s. We’ve been diverting trillions of dollars of stolen tax receipts to hold up the detroit’s, Baltimore’s, D.C’s… There’s something wrong with us, we keep repeating, failed policies.

​@@Handletaken4how is that, never heard mention of a race, you sound racist

Wisconsin ave., from downtown, through the MU campus, and out to 'tosa.. is a repulsive ghetto. I lived there in 1990-1992 and there was never anything there resembling a mansion.

Pabst ... like the beer?

actually black people moved in, quit ignoring the real cause

@@swannoir7949 yes.

@@ruthpordon5166 Cool. I love Pabst Blue Ribbon. Lol.

It totally is

Bozo

Yes! Restore instead of building garbage.

Washington DC was never trashed !

99% are torn down

@@PeaceToAll-sl1db That would leave 35? If the bones are good it might be easier to renovate than a similar size post-millennial home.

You own any property ? dream guy only?

@@homeplanet365 5 left in brush park seems about right.

@@lucasrem I do ? whats wrong with keeping historic buildings ?

If it ain't Murray it ain't Wright!!!

Yes the area looks really nice 👍💜

Exactly mate, if I had my way I would take all of the thugs and hoodrats to prison and bums to rehab and use the money to rebuild the poor neighborhoods.

Duh industry left. Great jobs solve crime.

@@RealBNews exactly - ease poverty and give people decent options in life. Crime thrives where people are desperate.

@@kkwatson8105 Then why isn't Appalachia and Ozark America rampant with crime and violence? FYI, those 2 areas I listed are the most marginalized and poverty stricken areas in almost the entire Western world so that's just misinformation.. Next?

@big red prove it.

Thet aren't all gone. Take a drive through. I think you'd be quite impressed.

@@mvanluven78 we don't do that bro , it's been decades since Americans actually went and drove places and experienced it ourselves as we would much rather rely on the TV or someone else's opinion to form our's instead : )

@@ExoTheDrakoXIII Idk as an American that’s still an Option to do and if not the best one to get the best view lmao

@r33mote or Americans like the majority of the country? American culture has shifted from traveling and Experiencing to instant gratification of television and online viewing and that is all I was and maybe in a somewhat comedic way ...but...yeah...

@@kevinrayonflores2212 I agree, now we just have to get the majority of other humans to agree and get out of their houses LOL

My great aunt owned the former residence of Henry Ford that is still located in that neighborhood. Her and her husband owned it until around 1987. We use to go there every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The house has cathedral ceilings, hidden passageways and stunning woodwork. The neighborhood itself was kinda scary a bit back in the 1980s but we went regardless.

Edsel Ford's "Honeymoon Cottage" is still located in Indian Village.

@@kathy2trips no it’s not… it was East of Jefferson Ave. when Indian Village straddled both sides of Jefferson. The UAW building and grounds is where Edsel lived in Indian Village before moving to Grosse Pointe Shores where the Mansion still stands.

As a native Detroiter who lived around the corner from Hitsville USA (on Grand Boulevard) in the 1960's and 1970's we had love and respect for the big beautiful homes there. I don't know who you ran into.⁷

@@andrepaige9669 bleks

Nicole Curtis has been working around Detroit and Lake Orion. Her show will be back on in November, I believe. Keep watching the TV schedule.

Give her a follow on IG too. Detroit design. I love her!

My mom grew up on burns street!

I relate...my dad's family were from Kentucky and my mom born in Detroit when it was prosperous.Its sad that north America tears down rather than preserving.

Yes, The Clark Mansion is somewhat similar to The Jerome house but not as opulent or as large. I assume you've read the book "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune." It's such as fascinating true story. Someone should really make a documentary or movie about her and her uninhabited mansions. I'll have to check out "The Dollmaker." Thanks for the tip!

@@lauraguida8482 I did read "Empty Mansions", great book. I could hardly put it down. I hope you'll enjoy "The Dollmaker", it's a remarkable American novel.

yes this is exactly what we should do !

I think that's the way history is. It takes a certain amount of time before buildings transform from "old" and "run down" to "historic." I mean, people were stripping away materials from the Egyptian Pyramids to build their houses and towns! To them, they were just big old monuments to long-dead kings. And they needed rocks! It takes time before someone says, "You can't use that, it's history!" Across the U.S. beautiful building and neighborhoods have been demolished and replaced with 7-Eleven with strip malls because at they time, they were just old buildings ready to fall down.

Exactly, the "true" Detroiters will always drag the city down.

@@JDMNINJA851 How would you feel in their place, though? There's a whole lotta history here, & you can learn about it - the best book on the subject is Thomas Sugrue's Origins of the Urban Crisis. You can take the scare quotes off of real. The real Detroiters are the ones who stayed when things got tough. People who abandoned the city shouldn't expect a parade when they "return" and displace people who have been there all along.

@@elainebelzDetroitAngryy leftist ^

@@DontcallmeaCuck LOL

This entire area has already been redeveloped

Yes well have to wait maybe a decade to see if that is the case and if it hasn't changed hands by then. There are the billionaires here that do real estate development but a lot of times not in the way they promised and a lot of it we are all STILL waiting to see the results of.

@@antoinemoorman5754 how is it looking today?

Big plans come big money.

Hopefully they are local To the Detroit area who appreciate the area, or at least Michiganians.

Not back in THOSE days!

Thank Democrats for that.

It's really not a miracle. Sad that you think basic housing is a miracle.

@@apebass2215It is in an era where many can barely afford rent let alone a mortgage and property taxes!

Owning a home in America is a miracle for the working class.

You might want to take a tour of some of the neighborhoods now, absolutely beautiful

Thats exactly what I was thinking. Heck look at The Whitney.

@@sharonschauer3257 I live near the Heckler Smiley Mansion, that place is practically on par with some of the guilded age Mansions that have been highlighted in this channel and the Freer mansion nextdoor is an incredible late 1800's modern mansion.

I think Boston Ave should be millionaire's row, the homes on this street are a amazing! Many famous people lived there; such as the Kresge mansion, Fisher mansion, etc.

@@kianaadams3351 Boston Ave has some amazing homes, so does Palmer Woods, Jefferson Chalmers and Iroquois Ave in Indian Village.

@@crotchwolf1929 Brush Park predates ALLLL of these neighborhoods by a LONG shot!

It’s not thriving at all no one moves to Detroit.

I love Detroit in all it's beauty, history and blight. I lived on the Canada side and visited a lot in my youth.

it is coming back but only in certain neighborhoods atm, not all of the city is on the come up

They hand it over to liberalism that tried to make everyone the same. And the diversity nonsense.