Fairlane Mansion - Boat House

The boat house to the Fairlane Mansion emerges from a hillside. The waterway, now closed off from the river, is junk strewn and stagnant. Yet, the fact of the mansion's endowment bodes well for full restoration of the estate.

VISIT HENRY FORD'S FIRST BIG HOUSE

Fairlane Mansion

Not the entrance to Batman's cave, the boat house to the Fairlane Mansion nonetheless has a pirate cove look to it. It once led into the Rouge River where Henry Ford could have traveled by motor boat to his famous Rouge Industrial Complex a mile or so downstream.

Once a country estate, Fairlane Mansion is now a forested island deep within the metropolitan sprawl of Detroit.

TO RIVERFRONT APTS.

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