James Burgess Book, Jr., House

Indian Village is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan, bounded to the north and south by Mack Avenue and East Jefferson Avenue, respectively, along the streets of Burns, Iroquois, and Seminole. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.The district has a number of architecturally-significant homes built in the early 20th century. Some of the houses have been substantially restored, and many others are well kept up. Bordering Indian Village to the west is West Village, with additional historic homes, townhouses and apartments.Many of the homes were designed by prominent architects, such as Albert Kahn, Louis Kamper and William B. Stratton, for some of the area's most prominent citizens, such as Edsel Ford. A lot of homes are very large, with some over 12,000 square feet (1,100 m2). Many have a carriage house, with some of those being larger than an average suburban home. Some of the houses also have large amounts of Pewabic Pottery tiles.Indian Village has very active community organizations, including the Indian Village Association, Men's Garden Club and Women's Garden Club. The neighborhood hosts an annual Home & Garden Tour on the first Saturday in June, neighborhood yard sales in September, a holiday home tour in December, and many other community events. The neighborhood contains many historic homes including that of automotive entrepreneur Henry Leland, founder of Lincoln and Cadillac, who resided at 1052 Seminole St. With a white population of 63 percent Indian Village is one of Detroit's few white majority neighborhoods.Detroit Public Schools operates the area's public schools.Residents are zoned to Nichols Elementary School, Marcus Garvey African Centered Academy K-8 for middle school, and Southeastern High School. On previous occasions, Butzel Middle School served Indian Village.Private schools serving Indian Village include the Benjamin E. Mays Male Academy, the Detroit Waldorf School and Detroit Friends School. Cornerstone Schools formerly operated the K-5 Iroquois Campus in Indian Village.NameImageYearLocationStyleArchitectNotesJohn Beaumont House19111090 SeminoleFederalDonaldson and MeierFounding member of law firm of Smith, Beaumont, and Harris.Schaefer House19173465 BurnsEnglish ColonialMildner and EisenJacob M. Schaefer was born on April 25, 1860 in Detroit, MI to John Schaefer and Gertrude Weidenbach (both parents were born in Germany and emigrated to the U.S.). John was a carriage maker and Gertrude raised 11 children. As of 1880, Jacob had one older brother, Charley, and 9 younger siblings. In 1880, the family was living at 86 Clinton St. in Detroit; many of their neighbors were Eastern European (the 1880 census lists Polish and “Bohemian”) and German (“Prussian” or “Bavarian” per the 1880 census). The Schaefers and many of their neighbors had last names that suggest they were Jewish. In 1880, when Jacob was around 20 years old, he was working as a painter; his siblings and neighbors had other similar occupations ranging from “rag peddler” to bookkeeper to brick mason to store clerk, suggesting that the neighborhood around Clinton Street was made up of mostly working-class immigrants and their children. Jacob married Clara Schumacher in June 1895 in Detroit. Clara and was born in Detroit and her parents were German immigrants, Joseph Schumacher and Gertrude Andre. Pastor Leo Stauss officiated their wedding and Jacob and Clara’s siblings were witnesses; Jacob was 35 and Clara was 28 when they married. The fact that a “pastor” married them suggests that Clara was Christian (Protestant, probably Lutheran). That same year (1895) Jacob and John Schroeder established the Michigan Smelting & Refining Company for the purpose of trading old metals; Joseph Sillman joined the group and became an executive at the company in 1900. The business was incorporated in 1903. In 1912, the company’s plant was moved to nine acres on Joseph Campeau Ave. in Hamtramck. During World War I, the company manufactured enormous quantities of metal for the U.S. government/military. As of 1921, the company was making some 750,000 pounds of metal daily including brass and bronze ingots, brass billets, brass slabs, solder, babbitt, lead and tin pipe, brazing spelter and die castings.1 Jacob and Clara had one (at least one *surviving*) child, Edmund J. Schaefer, born in 1897. In 1900, Jacob, Clara, and their son were living at 52 (-244-272) E. Moran in Detroit; it is not clear from the 1900 census whether or not they owned their home on E. Moran. However, by1905 Jacob was wealthy enough to be featured in a book of caricatures of notable Michigan businessmen and politicians. 3On or about 1910, Jacob, Clara, and their son moved to 1102 (-100-107) “Boulevard East” (today’s East Grand Blvd.). They lived here until 1917 while their house on Burns St. was being built. In 1917, Jacob, Clara, and twenty-year-old Edmund moved into their new home on Burns St. in Indian Village, Detroit. (Note: the house number on the 1920 census is 707 (-81-106); today it is 3465 Burns St.) Clara’s younger sister, forty-two-year-old Mary Schumacher, was listed as Jacob and Clara’s “servant” on the 1920 census. (Mary most likely lived on the 3rd floor of the house). Some 13 years younger than Clara, Mary was born in 1876; in 1900, after Clara had left home and married Jacob, Mary was unmarried and living with her parents and younger siblings on Maple St. in Detroit. After the stock market crash in 1929, Jacob, Clara, and their son, Edmund moved out of the house on Burns. Perhaps Jacob had to liquidate his assets following the financial downturn and sold the house as a result. In 1930 Jacob, Clara, and Edmund were living in a rented house on Cooper Ave. in north Royal Oak, MI (Normandy/Woodward area). Jacob died from arteriosclerosis (heart disease) at 8746 Petoskey in Detroit in 1939; he was 79. He is buried in Mt. Elliott Cemetery in Detroit (Section M, Lot 96, Space 13). Clara died in 1952 and was buried next to Jacob at Mt. Elliott (Section M, Lot 96, Space 15). Their son, Edmund, was named as the informant on Jacob’s death certificate. Edmund was a photographer and married a woman named Alice; they had two daughters and one son and were living on Chatsworth Blvd. in Detroit as of 1940.James Burgess Book Jr. House19118469 East Jefferson Ave.Neo-RenaissanceLouis KamperWarren Scripps Booth House19222950 IroquoisEnglish CottageMarcus BurrowesSon of Cranbrook founders George and Ellen Scripps Booth. President, Publisher and Chairman of The Detroit News.Arthur and Clara Buhl House19081116 IroquoisGothic, TudorJohn ScottMember of the family whose fortune eventually built the Buhl Building.Jacob Carl Danziger House19111485 BurnsBernard C. WetzelDanziger was treasurer and general manager of Detroit Motor Casting.Bingley Fales House19071771 SeminoleNeo-GeorgianChittenden & KottingAt 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m2), this house is the largest in Indian Village.Goebel House19121480 SeminoleGerman Baroque, Tudor, Arts and CraftsChittenden & KottingBuilt for Fritz Goebel, vice president (and younger son of the founder) of Goebel Brewing Company.James Hamilton House19028325 East Jefferson Ave.Tudor RevivalStratton & BaldwinWilliam F. Harris House8335 East Jefferson Ave.Christian Henry Hecker House19151763 IroquoisMacFarlane, Maul, and LentzSon of Colonel Frank J. Hecker. Christian Hecker served as president of the Hecker Insurance Co.George M. Holley19162152 BurnsWilliam Van TineFounded the Holley Carburetor Company.Robert Hupp House19111516 IroquoisPrairie StyleGeorge Valentine PottleHome of the auto baron who built the Huppmobile.Hurlbut Memorial Gate1894E. Jefferson at Cadillac Blvd.Beaux ArtsBrede & MuellerRestored in 2007.Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church19268625 E. Jefferson Ave.Gothic RevivalWirt C. RowlandFounded in 1854. Built in 1926 by Wirt C. Rowland, the Church contains ornate carvings with corbels and shields for each of the Apostles.Louis Kamper House19102150 IroquoisNeo-RenaissanceLouis KamperBuilt by Kamper as his family's home.John Kay House19162924 IroquoisColonial RevivalOscar C. GotteslebenBuilt for John Kay, prominent jeweler and founder of Wright, Kay & Company, for an estimated cost of $8,000.Bernard G. Koether and Harriet Bowerman House19232921 BurnsHerman & SimonsKoether was GM executive, director of sales, advertising, and public relations.Henry Leland House19011052 Seminole St.Tudor RevivalUnknownHenry Leland was an entrepreneur and machinist who founded Lincoln and Cadillac.Julius T. Melchers House1897723 SeyburnColonial RevivalDonaldson and MeierHome of Detroit sculptor Julius T. Melchers. The gable of the house is carved by Melchers.Edwin Nelson House8311 East Jefferson Ave.FederalPewabic Pottery Co.190710125 E. Jefferson Ave.TudorStratton & BaldwinMary Chase Perry Stratton, the founder of Pewabic Pottery was married to one of the architects.Cornelius Ray House19101500 SeminoleFrench - American colonialLouis KamperRussel House18901075 Burns Ave.Richardsonian RomanesqueWalter S. RusselMoved to its present site in 1921, once located at Jefferson Avenue and Joseph Campau Street.Enoch Smith House (aka "Ford Honeymoon House")19152171 IroquoisPurchased by Edsel B. Ford in 1917. Edsel and Eleanor Ford resided in the house until 1921. Birthplace of Henry Ford II and Benson Ford.Mary S. Smith House8445 East Jefferson Ave.Neo-RenaissanceFrederick K. Stearns House19028109 East Jefferson Ave.Tudor RevivalStratton & BaldwinDetroit Waldorf School19132555 BurnsAlbert KahnHenry L. Walker House18991005 IroquoisColonial RevivalRogers and MacFarlane• Michigan portal• East Jefferson Avenue Residential TR• Neighborhoods in Detroit• Manoogian Mansion (the official residence of the mayor of Detroit, it is located near Indian Village; the home was given to the city in 1966)• Hill, Eric J.; John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3120-3.• Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C.P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A. (1980). Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1651-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Wikimedia Commons has media related to Indian Village Historic District (Detroit, Michigan).• Indian Village homepageWestHistoric DistrictsSee also: Historic homes in metropolitan Detroit