Wardwell House

Wardwell House is a Michigan historical marker in Grosse Pte Park, Wayne County, dedicated 1981.

16109 East Jefferson, Grosse Pte Park

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William Buck, an English immigrant farmer, built the main part of this house around 1849. It has fourteen-inch thick walls and is the oldest brick house in Grosse Pointe. The rear clapboard addition, built elsewhere, dates from the 1880s. Henry Russel, an attorney and businessman, bought the house in 1901. In 1912 it became the home of his daughter, Helen Wardwell, and her husband, Harold. She lived here for sixty-five years. In 1977 the property was acquired by the Grosse Pointe Memorial Church as a bequest of Helen Wardwell.

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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

Historical maps covering this location

1850 · Ohio (Cowperthwait, 1850) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1853 · Map of the surveyed part of Michigan (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1854 · A map of the surveyed part of Michigan / by John Farmer ; engraved by S. Stiles & Co. (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1873 · (Map of Wayne County, Michigan) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
am012739 (American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee)

Map of the surveyed part of Michigan, 1853, covering the location of Wardwell House, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Map of the surveyed part of Michigan, 1853, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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