John & Mary Elizabeth Booth Endicott House

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John & Mary Elizabeth Booth Endicott House
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Location290 Chesterfield, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Coordinates 42°33′47″N83°13′53″W / 42.56306°N 83.23139°W / 42.56306; -83.23139 (John & Mary Elizabeth Booth Endicott House) Coordinates: 42°33′47″N83°13′53″W / 42.56306°N 83.23139°W / 42.56306; -83.23139 (John & Mary Elizabeth Booth Endicott House)
Area1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built1910 (1910)
Architectural style Colonial Revival
NRHP reference # 08000223 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 25, 2008

The John & Mary Elizabeth Booth Endicott House is a private house located at 290 Chesterfield in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1]

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan City in Michigan, United States

Bloomfield Hills is a city located in Metro Detroit's northern suburbs in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan, 20.2 miles (32.5 km) northwest of downtown Detroit. The city is almost completely surrounded by Bloomfield Township. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,869.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

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History

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Bloomfield Township became a fashionable area for wealthy Detroit businessmen wanting a country estate. One of those wealthy businessmen was John Endicott. Endicott graduated from Harvard in 1889 and arrived in Detroit in 1891 to work in his uncle's dry goods business, Newcomb, Endicott & Company. The company had been established in 1868, and by the 1890s was a prosperous Detroit retail store. Endicott started as a bookkeeper, was admitted as a partner in 1896 upon his uncle's death, and was appointed treasurer of the firm in 1903 when it incorporated. [2]

Detroit Largest city in Michigan

Detroit is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest United States city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County. The municipality of Detroit had a 2017 estimated population of 673,104, making it the 23rd-most populous city in the United States. The metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, is home to 4.3 million people, making it the second-largest in the Midwest after the Chicago metropolitan area. Regarded as a major cultural center, Detroit is known for its contributions to music and as a repository for art, architecture and design.

John Endicott married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Booth, in 1902, after the death of his first wife in 1900. In 1905, the couple purchased this lot of 94 acres for their country estate. The property contained a mill pond and a farmhouse, and in 1906 the Endicotts moved into the farmhouse permanently. They established a stock farm, constructing new barns on the property. They constructed this new house at some later point, likely around 1910. [2]

The Endicotts continued to live in this house, although John Endicott continued his business dealings in Detroit, first at Newcomb, Endicott & Company until its sale to Hudson's in 1927, and then in other capacities. In 1928 the Endicotts subdivided part of their farm acreage into 26 lots, keeping the 64 acre section around the house. They lived there until Mary's death in 1944. John Endicott lived in the house until 1954, when he sold the property to Donald and Florence James, who subdivided the remaining acreage into 38 lots, leaving two acres around this house. [2]

Hudsons department store chain based in Detroit

Hudson's, or The J.L. Hudson Company, was a retail department store chain based in Detroit, Michigan. Hudson's flagship store, on Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit, was the tallest department store in the world in 1961, and, at one time, claimed to be the second-largest department store, after Macy's, in the United States, by square footage.

Description

The Endicott House is a two-story wood-frame Dutch Colonial Revival house with Arts and Crafts influences. The front facade has a wraparound porch with a center projection, supported by fieldstone piers. A central entrance door is flanked by multi-light sidelights. Four one-over-one wood sash windows are on each side of the entry. On the second floor are two arched dormers with paired nine-over-one windows, linked by a shed-roofed dormer containing four six-over-one windows. [2]

Dutch Colonial Revival architecture

Dutch Colonial is a style of domestic architecture, primarily characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves along the length of the house. Modern versions built in the early 20th century are more accurately referred to as "Dutch Colonial Revival", a subtype of the Colonial Revival style.

The wraparound porch continues to the side elevations, where it accesses decorative French doors on each side. At the rear are two gambrel roofed projections. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2013-11-02). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Nathalie Wright (July 2007), NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REGISTRATION FORM: John & Mary Elizabeth Booth Endicott House