The William Livingstone House, shortly before demolition

The William Livingstone House, commonly called Slumpy, was a house constructed in 1894[1] and located in the Brush Park district of Detroit, Michigan.

William Livingstone Jr. (1844–1925), publisher of the Detroit Evening Journal,[2] was the second president of the Dime Savings Bank.[3] He hired a young Albert Kahn, who was working for the architectural firm of Mason & Rice, to design his residence on Eliot Street. When he obtained this commission – presumably with Mason's help – Kahn was only 22 or 23 years old and had just returned from spending 1891 in Europe, studying the classical architecture of the Old World: his decision to design the home in the French Renaissance Revival style reflected the time he spent sketching the best Gallic architecture.[4]

In 1987, the Red Cross intended to demolish the mansion, originally located west of John R. Street, to make way for their new building.[5] Preservationists succeeded in moving the Livingstone House about one block to the east,[6] but the building languished for many years on its final resting place before partially collapsing[7] and being demolished on September 15, 2007. The William Livingstone House was commemorated in a painting by Lowell Boileau entitled Open House, which was unveiled the day of its demolition.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Brush Park Historic District Final Report Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine from the City of Detroit. Retrieved on January 25, 2016.
  2. ↑ William Livingstone Archived 2014-01-25 at the Wayback Machine. Bentley Historical Library. Retrieved on December 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ Dime Building Archived 2013-12-19 at the Wayback Machine. Historic Detroit. Retrieved on December 18, 2013.
  4. ↑ William Livingstone Residence Archived 2018-12-18 at the Wayback Machine. Detroit1701. Retrieved on May 20, 2010.
  5. ↑ Millette, H.G.; Heholt, R. (2020). The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene. Palgrave Gothic. Springer International Publishing. p. 152. ISBN 978-3-030-43777-0. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
  6. ↑ "Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline". Time. 2009-03-09. Archived from the original on March 9, 2009. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
  7. ↑ Amazing Detroit Urban Decay . . . Right Before Your Eyes Archived 2016-04-09 at the Wayback Machine – GreenovationTV
  8. ↑ Open House Archived 2008-05-12 at the Wayback Machine.

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