Brush Park is a 24 block neighborhood east of Woodward Avenue. Mansions and houses are built in the Late Victorian, Empire and Mansard Roof styles. This area is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places, however many buildings have been demolished due to advanced neglect, decay and structural damage. Brush Park was an area which housed Detroit’s wealthy elites until the area’s decline during the Great Depression. Restoration efforts after the 1990′s eventually led to successful renovations of several Brush Park mansions. New townhouses and apartments were also built in the surrounding area.
This area is generally quiet unless there’s a Tigers baseball game or large scale event downtown. A strange gathering of large Victorian mansions are unevenly scattered amongst empty lots. Plots of land between houses had more in common with prairie fields as giant fluffy clouds hovered over the landscape like impossible castles in the sky.
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