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Historical Architecture of Grosse Pointe – Garden Pilgrimage Tours

Posted by Kay Agney on August 20th, 2024

Last week we concluded our two-part series on John L. Pottle, one of Grosse Pointe’s most prolific architects. He designed a significant number of homes and several commercial buildings throughout the community during the 1940’s-1960’s.

This week, with summer drawing to a close, we would like to take the opportunity to present the history of the Detroit Garden Center’s Garden Pilgrimage Tour, an annual tour that began around 1935. Landscape design in Grosse Pointe has always been an important feature of many homes. Not only were nationally renowned landscape designers hired, but plants and decorative items were sourced from all over the world.

It is possible the event stemmed from a Garden Pilgrimage that was held in Grosse Pointe in the early…

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Historical Architecture of Grosse Pointe – The Trial Gardens at The Grosse Pointe War Memorial

Posted by Kay Agney on August 13th, 2019

Last week we explored the six splendid homes on Windmill Pointe Omer C. Boushor created during the 1930’s and 1940’s. 

This week we take a piece of Windmill Pointe with us, namely one of the historic millstones, as we present the Trial Gardens at The Grosse Pointe War Memorial. The Trial Garden was originally commissioned by the Grosse Pointe Garden Center – an organization founded in 1950 to succeed the Grosse Pointe War Memorial’s Garden and Grounds Committee. Eleanor Roche, a noted landscape architect, designed them. 

From the book Grosse Pointe War Memorial, by Ann Marie Aliotta, Suzy Berschback we understand ‘the Trial Garden was so named because it started out with workers trying to see which difference plants and flowers would do well in…

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