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Happy 2026!

In our last post of 2025, we presented the history of the “Christmas Walk.” Beginning in 1960, it became an annual event that opened some wonderfully decorated homes to the public in Grosse Pointe and Bloomfield-Hills to benefit the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. It was incredibly popular and ran until the late 1970's.

For our first post of the new year, we are going to visit a magnificent home in Grosse Pointe Farms – 109 Kenwood. Completed in 1929, it was designed by the “Dean of Detroit Architects”, Geroge D. Mason for Lynn McNaughton, vice president in charge of sales at Cadillac.

109 Kenwood is a 10,518 sq ft residence, and arguably one of the grandest homes in Grosse Pointe Farms. It was one of the largest homes George Mason…

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Last week we presented the story of the weathervane that once graced the roof of 248 Provencal - 5ft tall, a rare and elegant figure of an Indian chief hoisting a bow. In 2006 it became the most expensive weathervane in the world when it sold at auction for $5.84m at Sotheby’s.

This week we present the history of the “Christmas Walk”. An annual event that opened some wonderfully decorated homes to the public in Grosse Pointe and Bloomfield-Hills, to benefit the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

The Christmas Walk event began in December 1960. Presented in the Detroit Free Press, it was reported “The old-fashioned Christmas Walk mapped by the Junior Women’s Association for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is a “first” that should – hopefully – become a…

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